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Isaac Asimov
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Sir William Bragg
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
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René Descartes
I think, therefore I am.
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Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
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Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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Stephen Hawking
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
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Christopher Morley
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Isaac Newton
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Ernest Rutherford
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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Carl Sagan
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe.
We are one species. We are starstuff.
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Wernher Von Braun
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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Carl Zwanzig
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
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Miscellaneous
Research is the art of seeing what everyone else has seen, and doing what no-one else has done.
Copying extensively from one source is plagiarism; copying extensively from several is research.
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
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