science

"I am persuaded that it will be of no little service to mathematics; for I apprehend that some, either of my contemporaries or of my successors, will, by means of the method when once established, be a…"

"“I always feel that the young doctors are only too anxious to experiment. After they’ve whipped out all our teeth, and administered quantities of very peculiar glands, and removed bits of our insides,…"

"This report summarizes the activities of the M.I.T. Computer-Aided Design Project from 1 December 1959 through 3 May 1967 in the development of a generalized 'system of software systems' for generatin…"

"When things don't change any longer, that's the end result of entropy, the heat-death of the universe. The more things go on moving, interrelating, conflicting, changing, the less balance there is—and…"

"Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the Almighty. Most people seem willing to accept Darwinism as long a…"

"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."

"Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was dead. On each of the subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I doing something wrong?"

"What we live in, unfortunately, is a time when we are infected by what I call quantum field theory idolatry."

"But frankly—may I so speak?—your CIA people’s theory strikes me as a miserable bundle of random suspicions, a few separate facts strung together by an intricate structure of ad hoc theorizing, in whic…"

"The third and intermediate kind of instruction, which connects the first two... relates to the application of scientific principles to practical purposes. It qualifies the student to plan a structure …"

"We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the 'Two Fluids' theory. Their results, however, have been deduced …"

"Men of science in former ages worked in secret, and instead of publishing their discoveries, taught them in secret to carefully selected pupils. Their motives for adopting that policy are readily inte…"

"Johann Gregor Mendel: Why his discoveries were ignored for 35 years"

"I like it, murder, because this is courage. It is anti-bourgeois. Murder is closer to heaven, because after becoming remords de conscience, one prays, one opens the sky, and the angels say, “Good morn…"

"We have emphasized that there is a big conflict between quantum theory and general relativity, since it leads to ultraviolet difficulties. However, it does not mean that both frameworks are fundamenta…"

"Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables."

"The history of scientific ideas shows all too blatantly that there has been no overall linear progression."

"As for the mathematical infinite, to the extent that it has found a justified application in science and contributed to its usefulness, it seems to me that it has hitherto appeared principally in the …"

"Scientists are some of the most patient people in history. They can set up laboratory experiments that last for months, years, decades, and centuries."

"I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we wo…"