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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity read more
As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.
The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It read more
It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they read more
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. -James P. Hogan.
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.
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking read more
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
