If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
Wisest is she who knows she does not know.
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
I don't want to believe. I want to know.
I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.
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