science

"There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves."

"Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel."

"Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?"

"Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'."

"Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars."

"I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me."

"That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be."

"It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true."

"The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others."

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

"Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world."

"Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this 'blunder,' rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter Λ rears its ugly head again and again and again."

"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?"

"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science."

"Science, where would scientists be without it? They’d probably still be in my basement, where I left them a few minutes ago."

"After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would."

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

"I think we have different value systems."—Arthur"Well mine's better."—Ford"

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."

"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."