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In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.
America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.
Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.
Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.
Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.
There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast," and is as necessary to life as the act of breathing.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.
At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.