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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.
I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.
There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.
Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.
On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)
All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.
And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.
Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.