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It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.
What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.
Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.
Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.
It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on.
What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius!
There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.
Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.
Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.
Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.
As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!
The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.