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There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.
Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.
I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie.
Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.
There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.
The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.
I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.
If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb.
It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.
Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.
Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.
There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.
The point of any religion should be this: how to open your heart to love.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.
If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either.
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.
Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.