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Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no read more
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house
The science of fools with long memories.
The science of fools with long memories.
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them read more
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the
art of the soluble. Both are immensely read more
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the
art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that read more
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to read more
My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a read more
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion