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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.
Astrology is interesting but not very accurate. It's a science I don't trust very much.
Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.
All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.
Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.
The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.
Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.
Some blessings have been ours in the past, and these may be repeated or even multiplied.
Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.
Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.
Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.