It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.
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An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
