Accounts Quote by Albert Einstein

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

— Henri Poincare

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

— Karl Popper

“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history...…

— Rachel Carson

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in…

— Anonymous

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history…

— Rachel Carson

The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.

— Walter Reisch

“Science is thus a paradigm for how we ought to gain knowledge—not the particular methods or institutions of science but its value system, namely…

— Steven Pinker

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world…

— Carl Sagan

“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

— E. O. Wilson