642 quotes found
“We derive vitamin D from the sunshine, and hence it can also be considered as "day" vitamin.”
“Vitamin D can be considered as vitamin of "defense" since it cures several diseases.”
“Culture is essential for human life and also the life of a cell.”
“Your mind is like Heraclitus' river. Your mind, in fact, is like nineteenth-century father of psychology William James' "stream of consciousness," a bubbling, babbling brook. Your mind constantly p...”
“A = A is a simplification, one so radical that it sometimes utterly distorts reality. It skins reality alive. Is A = A useful? Does logic come in handy? Is math a magnificent symbolic system with w...”
“Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you?”
“Our world is falling apart quietly. Human civilization has reduced the plant, a four-million-year-old life form, into three things: food, medicine, and wood. In our relentless and ever-intensifying...”
“If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants”
“Historically, discoveries of pure science are slow to reach the mainstream compared with those of the applied sciences, which noisily announce themselves with new medicines and gadgets. The Hubble ...”
“The main thing is to keep THE MAIN THING the main thing”
“A good scientist must accept the challenge that one day everything he believes could be wrong.”
“There are species on this planet we've never seen. They live in lands and seas that no human has ever explored, and they are struggling to survive in a world unknown to us...We destroy their homes....”
“The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.”
“There is one and only one statistical method for one objective in research.”
“Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?”
“Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.”
“Imagine the time, a dozen generations from now, when wave mechanics powers every machine and everyone takes it for granted. Do you really want them thinking that it feel from the sky, fully formed,...”
“... science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.”
“Time to write down the ingredients for a pipe bomb.”
“If you ingest too much sodium, you turn green.”
