"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
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"Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications."
"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress."
"Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!"If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept."
"I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it."
"Science only goes so far, then comes God.- Noah Calhoun-"
"Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."
"There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe."
"I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign."
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
"You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time."
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose"
"The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet"."
"Science is the most reliable guide in life."
"Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species."
"The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology."
"The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them — the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status."
"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement."
"Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?"
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."