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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in read more
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite read more
Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other read more
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something read more
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot read more
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'.
Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
