science

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

"Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life."

"When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion."

"A ști anumite lucruri pe de rost îți conferă capacitatea unei înțelegeri superioare."

"The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes."

"What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero."

"People do not change, they are merely revealed."

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

"Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion."

"...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alone.""And conscience,"added the bishop."It's the same thing. Conscience is the quota of innate science we each have inside us."

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."

"Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison.The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

"It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!"

"The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine."

"The difference between me and a scientist is a little word called “Science.” I don’t believe in it. Science has yet to validate my disbelief in Bigfoot."