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APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.
For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.
Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.
To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.
For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.
Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.
Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.
I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.
Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.
True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.
You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.
See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.