#science

"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress."

"The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning."

"I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!"

"A man of logic is a man of sin."

"Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile."

"Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise."

"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it."

"Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists."

"Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach."

"The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation."

"Big whirls have little whirls,That feed on their velocity;And little whirls have lesser whirls,And so on to viscosity."

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."

"Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you.[First intelligible words spoken over the telephone]"

"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men."

"It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order."

"The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing."

"I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t."

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

"The Theist tells us that the truth is god exists,the Atheist tells us that the truth is there is no god,while the truth tells us we don't know."

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