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When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe.

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

Science is nothing but perception.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.