642 quotes found
“Technology - the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”
“The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
“Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.”
“Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.”
“Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.”
“Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be envelope...”
“Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.”
“Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.”
“It may be bizarre but in my opinion science offers a sure path to God and religion.”
“As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown our science and technology are so powerful that if an intense effort is made we can do almost anything we want in say ten years - provided we ...”
“Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.”
“Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.”
“No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.”
“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.”
“Computers can figure out all kinds of problems except the things in the world that just don't add up.”
“The World would be a safer place If someone had a plan Before exploring Outer Space To find the Inner Man.”
“There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.”
“In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”
“The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.”
“Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.”
