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In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.
Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.
As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.
He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.
Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.
Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
I would have become a pilot if it wasn't for my poor eyesight and the fact that I am hopeless in science.
I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'.
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.