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It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?
If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.
Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.
The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.
Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.
One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!
Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.
I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!
American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.
If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.