Famous Quotes

"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."

Henri Poincare on Science

More quotes about Science

• "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

• "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

• "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science

More quotes by Henri Poincare

• "The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."

• "The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."

• "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."

• "It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."

• "Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."