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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

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