Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.
It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a good grasp of science. The ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, questions of diet and heredity. All require scientific literacy. Can Americans choose the proper leaders and support the proper programs if they themselves are scientifically illiterate? The whole premise of democracy is that it is safe to leave important questions to the court of public opinion - but is it safe to leave them to the court of public ignorance?
Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'
What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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