When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.