Paul Davies Quotes

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Physics is not a religion. If it were, we’d have a much easier time raising money.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.