#science

"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."

"You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into."

"By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it."

"The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious."

"One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one."

"He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out."

"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."

"The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense."

"A beautiful bright blue sky; up above so high; how happy i am; to feel fully satisfied."

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."

"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."

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

"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."

"In my laboratory, I use science to measure love. Whatever you do, don’t drink out of beaker number two."

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."

"I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times."

"Creating a better futureRequires creativity in the present."

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

"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?"

"He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness."