Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. -James P. Hogan.
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
