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What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.
Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.
The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.
DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.
You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.
Deep neural networks are responsible for some of the greatest advances in modern computer science.
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?