642 quotes found
“He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose to a high of 8.79 rem per hour. Several lifetimes of dentists’ X-rays, to be sure; but the radiati...”
“Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.”
“……but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance”
“You stupid fool, you know very well it's not a short novel, but something longer...A piece of work you've got to buckle down to, that needs peace and concentration. Being able to wake up in the mor...”
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the s...”
“Another ship. It’s the best news I could ever have imagined. Who are they going to send? Who’s coming?I stare out of the helm window, straining my eyes against the infinite blackness, pressing my f...”
“Inthe scientific community, the adjective ‘theological’ is some-times used pejoratively to refer to a vague or ill-formulatedbelief. I believe this usage to be very far from the truth. It sad-dens ...”
“For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other—Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time.”
“Culture” is essential for human life and also the life of a cell.”
“Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?”
“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.”
“And every science, when we understand it not as an instrument of power and domination but as an adventure in knowledge pursued by our species across the ages, is nothing but this harmony, more or l...”
“In fact, science is neither materialist nor idealist; it is simply science. It’s impartial and can’t be answerable for the direction of its conclusions.”
“Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important a...”
“I call it the Goldilocks effect: We can't get enough of each other if we can have each other at a digital distance—not too close, not too far, just right. But human relationships are rich, messy, a...”
“Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.”
“What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror?...The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response ...”
“As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.”
“If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.”
