Religion Quotes by Charles H. Townes

“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

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

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

— Charles H. Townes

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

— Charles H. Townes

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

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

— Charles H. Townes

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

— Charles H. Townes

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

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

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

Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

— Charles H. Townes