Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that read more

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of read more

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because read more

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I read more

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will read more

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.

Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.