science

"The size of the Federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern."

"In the early 1970s,... economists began to embrace the Rational Expectations Hypothesis , according to which market participants’ expectations are “essentially the same as the predictions of the relev…"

"Science is--or should be--the greenest force of all."

"Comparatively few of the propositions and proofs in the Elements are his own discoveries. In fact, the proof of the "Theorem of Pythagoras" is the only one directly ascribed to him."

"The danger is not only that politicians and private institutions with axes to grind will find tame or corruptible social scientists to support their positions. The greater danger which recent experien…"

"Visionaries are the first people in their industry segment to see the potential of the High Tech Marketing Enlightenment new technology. Fundamentally, they see themselves as smarter than their opposi…"

": If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you."

"Generally there is Stigler’s law of eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler."

"Probably Greek logistic, or calculation, extended to more difficult operations... and... probably Greek arithmetic, or theory of numbers, owed much more to induction than is permitted to appear by its…"

"Even though principles of rationality seem as often violated as followed, we still cling to the notion that human thought should be rational, logical, and orderly. Much of law is based upon the concep…"

"n science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality."

"Fermat applied his method of tangents to many difficult problems. The method has the form of the now-standard method of differential calculus, though it begs entirely the difficult theory of limits."

"Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists."

"Exploratory Experimentation: Goethe, Land, and Color Theory"

"Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall, Project Gutenberg"

"And yet, though his eyes shone with the thrill of his discovery, he suffered at the same time a pang of resentment—a resentment that this alien realm should be able to exist in a world that appeared t…"

"‘This morning he’d discovered the bathroom light on, its lustre wasted in daylight.’"

"The Pope must have done something that even the Catholic church found unacceptable. My theory is that he fucked an adult woman."

"It is surely unnecessary to dwell on the interest and importance of a study which instructs us that every pebble we tread upon bears the impress of the Almighty's hand, and affords evidence of Creativ…"

"I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. There's the moment when you know you can find out the an…"