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'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.
Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.
The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking.
O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.
Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.
Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.
You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our times.
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.
The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?
My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.
Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.
AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it.
'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.