642 quotes found
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”
“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”
“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”
“One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”
“If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.”
“I have learned to have more trust in the scientist than he does in himself.”
“Everybody wants to own the end of the world.”
“Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.”
“I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction”
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
“Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuc”
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
“God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.”
