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Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.
Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos.
One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.
The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...
As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?
For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.
Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base.
As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.
We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules.
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.
There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.