Language Quote by Rivka Galchen

“[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]”

— Carl Sagan

“Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view.”

— Carlo Rovelli

“The sciences paint an impersonal and objective account of the world, deliberately devoid of "meaning", telling us about origins and mechanics of life, by…

— John Barrow

“The topic of weather isn’t small talk, when you’re conversing with a meteorologist.”

— Jarod Kintz

“science isn’t about the things but about the relationships among the things.”

— Steven Vogel

“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock

“we shouldn’t reshape our science just to avoid confusing the public”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“My purpose in the classroom, and the main reason I’ve written this book, is to translate the truly astounding, groundbreaking, sometimes even revolutionary discoveries…

— Walter Lewin

“What are any of the disciplines but a way in which people trying to make sense of the world or the universe?”

— Joan Countryman

“Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Science is not interested in what stands to reason.”

— Terry Pratchett