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The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.
Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.
'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.
Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!
When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.
When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.
My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.
As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.
Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.
It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.
Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's left ear.
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.
Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.
Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.
There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.
Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.