The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new
facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them
Sir William Bragg
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple
and may as a rule be expressed in a language comprehensable to
everyone
Albert Einstein
Not mapping the stars and galaxies but charting the unknown
possiblities of existence
Unknown
This book fills a much-needed gap.
Moses Hadas when he was asked to say something nice about a fellow
scientist's new book
I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
Erwin Schrodinger talking about quantum mechanics.
A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points,
but it is by no means the most interesting.
Dr. Who
Door meten tot weten. (To knowledge by measurement)
Kammerlingh, Dutch low temperature physicist
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.... The major
advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the
societies in which they occur.
Alfred North Whitehead
Experience has shown that science frequently develops most
fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the
simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.
Marvin Minsky
There is no gravity, the earth just sucks.
Unknown
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I stood on
the shoulders of giants.
Sir Isaac Newton
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Only two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity; and
I'm not certain about the universe. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest (1st Baron) Rutherford (1871-1937)
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the
'social sciences' is: some do, some don't.
Ernest (1st Baron) Rutherford (1871-1937)
Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
Neils Bohr (1885-1962)
In the pure and physical sciences each generation inherits the
consequences made by its predecessors, but in the moral sciences,
particularly the arts of administration, the ground seems never to
be incontestably won.
Unknown
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds
new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it) but "That's
funny..."
Isaac Asimov
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