642 quotes found
“The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.”
“E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.”
“It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.”
“A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.”
“Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.”
“Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented among other things the crank the horse collar eyeglasses the flying buttress the stirrup the windmill the wheelbarrow printing firearms pape...”
“The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.”
“A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.”
“The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.”
“Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.”
“If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
“It is the theory which decided what can be observed.”
“Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.”
“Science and art belong to the whole world and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.”
“Science is simply common sense at its best - that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
“Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.”
“Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.”
“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.”
“Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.”
“Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.”
