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Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.
Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.
ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.
This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost.
Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.
Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.
I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.
But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.
I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.