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There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.
[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.
I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells.
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.
Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.
There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist.
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong.
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.
I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.
There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.
The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.