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What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'
If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.
I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.
We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.
The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.
I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post.
My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention
The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology.
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.
We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!
Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.
What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?
Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.
That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.
You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.
Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!
Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.
The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.
Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.
Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.