Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.

There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.

Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.

The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

You know only insofar as you can measure.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.