The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

              —Stephen W. Hawking

The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.

                               —Paul Davies

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.                       —Thomas Carlyle

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.

                                   —Louis Orr

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

                       —Immanuel Kant

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.

                        —Albert Einstein

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

                            —Loren Eiseley

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

—Sir William Lawrence Bragg

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

                                —Max Weber

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.

                          —Robert Pollack

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (“I’ve found it!”) but “That’s funny...”

                            —Isaac Asimov

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

                           —Dixie Lee Ray

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

                          —Galileo Galilei