Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises. — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
“One has ideas, does experiments, meets people, seeks advice, calls old friends, runs into unexpected remarks, meets new people with new ideas, and in… — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find… — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented. — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question. — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can see, within science itself, there are many inconsistencies.… — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them. — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible. — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready… — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already known by somebody 25 years before… — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a… — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise. — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
