Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.

Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist…

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

The sun, with all he planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Euclid’s Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the progress of man from a worse to a better state. The encouragement; for...

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the...

But even if I know what governs their trajectory, if I know the rules of the movement of things and how things are organized and how certain mutations, transformations, gestations take place, even if I...

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, ‘God, I just don’t know...

Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only...

At lunch Francis winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

One’s opinion should only be as strong as one’s knowledge on the matter.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning… because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him, and science gives today the only...

As the leader of the international Human Genome Project, which had labored mightily over more than a decade to reveal this DNA sequence, I stood beside President Bill Clinton in the East Room of the...

A scientist’s accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.

It’s a most peculiar psychology—this business of ‘Science is based on faith too, so there!’ Typically this is said by people who claim that faith is a good thing. Then why do they say ‘Science...

You stupid fool, you know very well it’s not a short novel, but something longer…A piece of work you’ve got to buckle down to, that needs peace and concentration. Being able to wake up in...

Littlewood, on Hardy’s own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who...

That’s science fiction shit,” “It’s only fiction until science catches up.

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar...

Yeni bilim’in gelişmesiyle, geleneksel din biçimleri, giderek etkisini yitirmiş Avrupa’da, dinsel değerlerin yitirilmesi tehlikesi başgöstermiştir. Dostoyevski bu korkuyu şu ünlü tümcesinde dile getirmiştir: “Tanrı yoksa, her şey mümkündür.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but...

If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?

When I die I’m donating my body to science, because everybody loves a free buffet.

Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full.

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

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk… A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery...

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

He (Comings) has in the past performed successful energy-converting experiments, creating a ringing resonance by injecting certain frequencies into piezo-electric crystals. When the crystal was in resonance with the plenum of space, the power output...

No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything...

To us investigators, the concept ‘soul’ is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels,...

The bigger issue here is what is and isn’t science. There’s no scientist who’s going to prove or disprove the existence of God. It’s just a different realm.

We don’t learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff that they try to force down our throats. Philosophers try to figure things...

Tut, tut. We can’t let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of...

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be...

These were the kids who would take LSD for recreational purposes, who relied upon tape recorders to supply the weird studio effects their music required and who could repeat the cosmic wisdom of the Space...

What is it, she asks me, why do people cry? Why do we cry when we’re happy and when we’re sad or hurt? I tell her what I know or think I know: that the...

No matter how hard you try, after the Day there will always be a Night…

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody’s easiest course at school and our species would not have...

If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven’t these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer lies in the profound inertia of human thought: when an entire society believes...

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!