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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel.
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.
Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.
Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.
...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.
It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.