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In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
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.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. read more
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. - The Zykovs, 1914.
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'.
Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'.
Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity read more
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.