In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But read more

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean read more

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.

Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.

A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.

You have to know you can first. How comes later.

You have to know you can first. How comes later.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.