Let a drop of wine fall into a glass of water; whatever be the law that governs the internal movement of the liquid, we will soon see it tint itself uniformly pink and from that moment on, however we...
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
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.
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.
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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 mathe...
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.
Science is facts.