Science Quotes - Page 214

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.

Don't throw away your conscience.

It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally suprise me. I do not think of mathemaatics as invented but rather discovered.

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

An exact science is one that admits loss.

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.

There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.

A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it (whatever its value may be).

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into a singular river.

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.