Accepting Quote by Albert Einstein

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as…

— Albert Einstein

“Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as…

— Albert Einstein

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not…

— Sigmund Freud

This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Real understanding of any scientific subject must include some knowledge of its historical growth; we cannot comprehend and accept modern concepts and theories without…

— Colin Cherry

The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature.…

— Tsung-Dao Lee

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general…

— Charles Darwin

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached…

— Lewis Thomas

Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, and…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr