Science Quote by James Clerk Maxwell

... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left…

— Anonymous

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the…

— Lord Kelvin

“One hundred and fifty years of science have proved more explosive than five thousand years of prescientific culture. It would be absurd to suppose…

— Bertrand Russell

I think if anything, what 'The Astonishing' proved is that we're always going to experiment.

— John Petrucci

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other…

— John William Strutt

“It takes a kind of arrogance to think everything in the world can be measured and weighed with our scientific instruments.”

— Eowyn Ivey

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us…

— Karl Mannheim

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money…

— Stephen Hawking

“Science is entirely dependent on constants. Anything that is not constant (natural disasters, poor construction, or other human factors) is nearly impossible to include…

— Stephen and Tiffany Domena

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in…

— Simone Weil

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl