The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

— Richard P. Feynman

The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific…

— Richard P. Feynman

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients…

— Albert Einstein

“A basic principle of science—of liberal social life—is that we kill our hypotheses rather than each other .”

— Jonathan Rauch

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

— Alex Grey

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

— Rupert Sheldrake

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world.…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Your true home is in the here and the now... You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that…

— Anonymous

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course…

— James Marsh

Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.

— Albert Einstein

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.

— Albert Einstein

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

— Albert Einstein

I don't believe in mathematics.

— Albert Einstein

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of…

— Albert Einstein