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Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
I have taught a mixture of undergraduate and graduate courses, and found them both stimulating.
The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.
Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.
Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.
For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps.
You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.
Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties
For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.
Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.
I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.
It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.
Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that.
I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.
A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.
There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.
It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.
Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.