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One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.
Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.
How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
Universe is blind; it cannot see us; we must find a way to show ourselves to it and science is the way to open the eyes of the universe!
Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.
Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work
I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.
All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.
As a chef, I got into this because I love the creative energy and I love the science, but I also love to feed people and make them happy.