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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.
But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".
Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.
Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.
Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.
The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.
Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.
How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?
There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.
A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.
Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.
There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
I have yet to see a career that is similar in benefit as computer science for doing the advanced exercises.