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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the read more
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.
The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and read more
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology
Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.
Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that read more
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of
empirical facts by logical deduction from read more
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of
empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of
hypotheses or axioms.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike read more
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they
were truly religious men because of their faith read more
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they
were truly religious men because of their faith in the
orderliness of the universe.