Science Quotes - Page 86

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

It can be said with complete confidence that any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or piffling answers. It is not enough that a problem should be "interesting".

Freedom is a clear conscience.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.

He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars.

Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.