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Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.
Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.
A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.
Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!
[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.
The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.
All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.
Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.
Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.
True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.
Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.
To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.
The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.
Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.
Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.
When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.