Quotes by Subject: Science & Nature
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. | |||
The important thing is not to stop questioning. | |||
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes than can be made in a very narrow field. | |||
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. | |||
If you would have gold in all your days, ascertain where it will exist in the future, and be there when it occurs. | |||
There are no sects in geometry. | |||
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. | |||
There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool. | |||
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. | |||
The body is a sacred garment. | |||
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. | |||
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. | * | ||
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. | |||
Necessity is the mother of invention. | |||
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. | |||
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. | |||
A solution should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. | * | ||
Nature always takes her time. Great oaks don't become great overnight. They also lose a lot of leaves, branches and bark in the process of becoming great. | |||
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. | |||
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. | |||
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. | |||
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. | |||
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. | * | ||
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. | |||
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. | |||
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means. | |||
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. | |||
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. | * | ||
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. | |||
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. | |||
Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers. | * | ||
I contend we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. | |||
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. | |||
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. | * | ||
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. | |||
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. | |||
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