Quotations: Science and Philosophy

From Science Besieged

Since the Renaissance, physics has endeavored to find the general laws governing the behavior of material objects in space and time. To consider the existence of these objects as a problem was left to philosophy.

--Albert Einstein, 1950 Speech to the International Congress of Sugeons in Cleveland, Ohio; reprinted in "Physics, Philosophy, and Scientific Progress", Physics Today 58:6, June 2005.

This is a mysterious universe, and the more we know about it the more mysterious it seems.

--New York Times, "Editorial: Dark Matter", New York Times, 23 August 2006.

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