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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
I think it is important to have a balance of science and arts to be able to be accessible in either fields.
If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.
It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.
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.
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.
I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
We didn't care about salaries and having a nice car. We just cared about science and were really ambitious.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.
The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.
Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.
Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible.
Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.