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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
For who would live if life held no allurements?
The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.
Amanda is now a tenure-track professor at Yale.
Experimental science is the queen of knowledge.
The word "impossible" is not a scientific term.
To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
To be and to think are one and the same for us.
Moral certainty is never more than probability.
A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.
Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
Basic scientific research is scientific capital.
The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra.
The word "dis-aster," in fact, means "bad star."
Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.
Science is not finished until it is communicated.
Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.