Science Quotes - Page 36

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

I had fallen in love with a young man... and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery...

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You will recollect that, at the first meeting of the Board of Directors, I took the ground that 'it was our policy to make the office of operator desirable, to pay operators well and make their situation so agreeable that intelligent men and men of character will seek the place and dread to lose it.' I still think so, and, depend upon it, it is the soundest economy to act on this principle.

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

Science is public, not private, knowledge.

The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.