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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.
The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.
The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?
I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.
Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.
Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly
We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.
But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.
[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.
Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.