science

"The Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be."

"Do you believe then that the sciences would have arisen and grown up if the sorcerers, alchemists, astrologers and witches had not been their forerunners; those who, with their promisings and foreshad…"

"Such impudence! I am a member and the chairwoman of the Academy of Sciences. You cannot talk to me in such a way!"

"A clean conscience might help you to get into heaven. but it won't help your career."

"he records of the tables are published in... Le Monaco and issued weekly in Paris... eight weeks roulette gave a grand total of 33,000 events. ...M. Blanc deserved a niche in the temple of science and…"

"Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it mean…"

"All the pictures include a plus-factor, which robs the public of her pleasure but which is in every case the principal merit of the work; the completely spiritualized, de-materialized awardness of per…"

"It is with Isaac Newton that the modern dream of a final theory really begins."

"Women are not allowed to be seen to enjoy themselves on lots of ways. They have a test for that in Ireland now, they’ve scientifically perfected that. The Madonna-Whore-Quotient of a woman. You know, …"

"Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice."

"Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that…"

"What is the deep background on the deep male? From 100,000 BC until, let's say, 1792 — Mary Wollstonecraft and her Vindication of the Rights of Women — there was simply the man, whose main characteris…"

"Perhaps because so much of what the classical economists wrote about traditional systems of agricultural production was divorced from the seemingly more timeless remarks about pure theory, later reade…"

"Laws never become theories! The theory of gravity includes a number of Newtonian laws. There is not one law of gravity; there are several laws included within the theory. The same goes for Relativity …"

"The term 'simplicity' functions then merely as a disguise for another meaning than its own. It is used for smuggling an essential quality into our appreciation of a scientific theory, which a mistaken…"

"The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields."

"Survivors of the plague, finding themselves neither destroyed nor improved, could discover no Divine purpose in the pain they had suffered. God’s purposes were usually mysterious, but this scourge had…"

"A man in daily muddy contact with field experiments could not be expected to have much faith in any direct assumption of independently distributed normal errors."

"Modern management science has made it feasible for corporations to expand the scope and variety of their operations. It has created new economies of scale through which larger aggregations of men, mat…"

"The last big things that we discovered was the constructivist turn in mathematics... to understand that the parts of mathematics that work are computation. That was a very significant discovery in the…"