Science is simply common sense at its best.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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