***Thoughts of Famous Scientists and Philosophers***
"
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
Observation,
reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method."
"Chemistry is physics without thought; mathematics is physics without purpose." - Anonymous
"A
fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent,
"Mathematics
is the language with which God has written the universe."
There
does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name
applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound
together as the fruit of the tree."-Louis
Pasteur
There
are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down error instead of
establishing the truth."-Marie
Curie
"Every
sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a
question."
"I have never seen the
slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of
future life for individuals, or of a personal God." -Thomas Edison
"There
must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in
science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to
doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any
errors."
"Any
sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
The
great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an
ugly truth." -Thomas
Huxley
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"What
we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Jung
"It
is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of
theories to suit facts."
"Put
your hand on a hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour. Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. Now THAT'S
relativity." -Albert
Einstien
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.----Archimedes (ca. 235 bc) b. Syracuse; Concerning levers
"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
"The
theory of relativity does, however, force us to change fundamentally our
ideas of space and time. We must accept that time if not completely
separate from and independent of space, but is combined with it to form an
object called space-time
"Science is a
differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition." -Alan Turing
"There
is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods;
and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth,
"Gods
are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of
common sense." -Chapman
Cohen
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.Pasteur, Louis; (1822-1892).
"Science
is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it".
"Science is a collection of successful recipes." -Paul Valery
One
of the wonders of this world is that objects so small can have such
The
purpose of science is no longer to differentiate between what is possible
and impossible but between what is possible so as to determine what is
ethical.-J.
R. Oppenheimer
"Gravity
is not responsible for people falling in love."
"To
err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."
"Organic
chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that
crawl."
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.----Hawking, Stephen W.
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.-------Kaku, Michio
I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am--most of them theoretical
physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore
the field is extremely competitive. I console myself with the thought that
although they may be smarter and may be deeper thinkers than I am, I have
broader interests than they have.----Pauling, Linus
(1901-1994).
"Let
us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human
spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings."
"How
wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making
progress."
"We
should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course,
powerful muscles, but no personality."
All
religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
"Computers
are useless. They can only give you answers"
"Women
love men for their defects; if men have enough of them women will forgive them
everything, even their gigantic intellects. "
"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek." - Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
"Get
your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
(Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable)."
"Make
it myself? But I'm a physical organic chemist!"
An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and
springs, and believes it civilization.
I think there's a world market for about five computers.----Watson, Thomas (Founder of IBM)
"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery." -Maxim Gorky(1868-1936)
This world is not one, in which certainty is possible, If you think you've achieved certainty, you are almost certainly mistaken, that is one of the few things you could be certain about.-Bernard Russell Speaking-BBC interwiew
"Man can be
scientifically manipulated."-Bertrand Russell
"Although
this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of
approximation."
"
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to
acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass ." -August
Strindberg
"If
my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a
German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my
theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will
declare that I am a Jew."
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I've found it!), but "That's funny..."ISAAC ASIMOV (1920-1992, Science Fiction Writer.)