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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
I don't like to end my talk with a 700 million dollar loss, even if it shows the importance of Numerical Analysis.
[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.
If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.
If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!
Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.
I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.
The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication.
I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.