Events Quote by Stephen Hawking

After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of…

— Loren Eiseley

What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be…

— Alan Lightman

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a…

— William Whewell

Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is…

— Victor Hugo

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in…

— James D. Watson

Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required…

— Arno Allan Penzias

Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And…

— Karl Popper

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved…

— Friedrich August von Hayek