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Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.
Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you!
Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.
We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.