Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Showing posts with label Science Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science Quotes. Show all posts
When I am in the company of sc...
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
What the hell is nostalgia doi...
What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hide hole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luke Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there's a message there, I don't think I want to hear it.
Wetenschap is wat wetenschappe...
Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.
To know the history of science...
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
Though many have tried, no one...
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.
They tend to be suspicious, br...
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
There were two kinds of physic...
There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.
There is something fascinating...
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
There is no national science j...
There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
There is more than a mere susp...
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.
There are two kinds of truth; ...
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.
There are no physicists in the...
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
The World would be a safer pla...
The World would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring Outer Space, To find the Inner Man.
The whole of science is nothin...
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The whole history of physics p...
The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place.
The way to do research is to a...
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
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