Point of view Quote by James Gleick

“Science is predicated upon the belief that the Universe is algorithmically compressible and the modern search for a Theory of Everything is the ultimate…

— John D. Barrow

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but…

— Richard Hamming

It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If…

— Werner Heisenberg

My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the…

— Paul Davies

Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.

— David Hestenes

While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest…

— William Mitchinson Hicks

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing…

— John Ruskin

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth,…

— Paul Davies

The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although the basic…

— Seth Lloyd

“One of the most profitable consequences of science as an “open system” of knowledge, as opposed to rigid dogma, is that the future Laws…

— Dean Radin

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

— Freeman Dyson

“The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete,”

— Scott Hartley