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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame.
Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth!
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.
Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.
Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.
In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.
All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.
Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.
I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.
No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.
The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique'.
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.
I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.