Women of my generation who've stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

If God exists He must be manifest somehow in matter, and His ways are what science is discovering.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

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