642 quotes found
“In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know somethin...”
“It tastes like water spiked with strange.”
“We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the ...”
“If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.”
“Life [] is scientific, thats what it is.”
“A man who knows what other men know,know nothing for they all know the same”
“If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that pa...”
“And before you say this is all far-fetched, just think how far the human race has come in the past ten years. If someone had told your parents, for example, that they would be able to carry their e...”
“The human mind delights in finding patternso much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small cr...”
“There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligenceor even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on ...”
“The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I ca...”
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them”
“How do we change the way science is taught?Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in their life, and you never come up with more than the fingers on one hand. You remember their name...”
“After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.”
“MakeNew FrNdS But Keep D oLd , One iS silVerThe Other is Gold.”
“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.”
“History repeats, but science reverberates.”
“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.”
“When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.”
“The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.”
