All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.

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.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than read more

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus read more

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.

Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.

Science is nothing but perception.

Science is nothing but perception.