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Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.
Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.
Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.
The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.
But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.
The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.
With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.
When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.
Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.
I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.
To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.