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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.
The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.
It is only too clear that man is not at home within this universe, and yet that he is not good enough to deserve a better.
In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.
As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.
No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.