642 quotes found
“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”
“We can't help it. Life looks for life.”
“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”
“The best way to avoid abuses is for the populace in general to be scientifically literate, to understand the implications of such investigations. In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are ...”
“Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely- make that miraculously- fortunate in your personal ancestr...”
“Never fire a laser at a mirror. ”
“The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the...”
“But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system before it, science is starting not to fit the world any more. Science has attained so much power th...”
“Stop telling God what to do with his dice.”
“Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like ...”
“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”
“Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.”
“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he cant touch and see. ”
“You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.”
“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
“If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts,...”
“Take chances! Get messy! Make mistakes!”
“Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to mans destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published ...”
“It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true”
“You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.”
