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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.
The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple
Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
Just as computer science is missing from our school system, so is science fiction.
It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'
Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.