Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.
A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.
He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Real numbers are good if you add the word 'random'.
The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.
My preparation is about precision. It is a science.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.
Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.
There can be no truce between science and religion.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
One good thing about my computer: it never asks why.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
The discovery of one star is the promise of another.
[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.
Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.
I never could make out what those damned dots meant.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos?
Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
The creative life was the only one for a serious man.
...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.
I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.