"Science goes from question to question big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.“


-George Wald

posted in science


Science goes from question to question big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side."

-George Wald

warView Quote
"The concept of war crimes is an American invention."

-George Wald

warView Quote
"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."

-George Wald

warView Quote
"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all and for that I am especially grateful."

-George Wald

peaceView Quote
"How sweet it is!"

-Jackie Gleason

migrate3View Quote
"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."

-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

migrate3View Quote

More Quotes About science

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff."

-Joel Edgerton

scienceView Quote
"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."

-Diane Cilento

scienceView Quote
"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."

-Brian Aldiss

scienceView Quote
"We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space."

-Nick Lampson

scienceView Quote
"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."

-John Desmond Bernal

scienceView Quote
"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."

-John Desmond Bernal

scienceView Quote