science

"...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation."

"All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable."

"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."

"The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality."

"The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it."

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

"History repeats, but science reverberates."

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

"In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become."

"If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment."

"You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up."

"And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield."

"If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far."

"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

"I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship."

"The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance."

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

"To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth."

"Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better."