science

"As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to "," also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebra…"

"Blacker, with the exception of Col Everest, was the ablest and most scientific man that ever presided over this expensive department"

"As parliamentarians you must carefully examine your conscience on the deliberation of sensitive issues and not be swayed by divisive racial remarks which have been a common and unfortunate hallmark of…"

"By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity , came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within…"

"is or should be our main scientific activity — studying the structure of information and the structure of problem solving processes independently of applications and independently of its realization i…"

"Bereft of much of its mummery, Marxist theory reveals itself as a variant of generic fascism. The contest of the twentieth century, which has cost so much in human lives, was not between the Right and…"

"Power is a very difficult problem with which to deal in the theory of organization."

"The years since the mid-1970s have been the most frustrating in the history of particle physics. We are paying the price of our own success: theory has advanced so far that further progress will requi…"

"A key location for the development of general systems theory was the University of Michigan’s Mental Health Research Institute where General Systems, the yearbook of the was based for many years. A me…"

"I was very conscience that if you put even your toe on this very sticky piece of paper, then you would be caught on it."

"Doctor, you have science, I have faith.--to his physician, this was possibly a Jules Verne quote."

"It is more difficult for a modern scientist to be a serious Christian, like Polkinghorne, than to be a serious Muslim, like the Nobel Prize-winning physicisit Abdus Salam. Salam happily proclaimed his…"

"I decided to experiment with normality."

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly unt…"

"It is obvious that in such a series of lectures as this it would be impossible to deal adequately in any way with this stupendous subject, even were I equipped to lecture on such a fundamentally scien…"

"If the present study has any significance at all, this results not least from its opposition to this mingling of what is and what ought to be, of scientific analysis with ideals."

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny ...'"

"If you can’t think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn’t scientific."

"He wasn’t a man of erudition, yet very quickly grasped the significance of this or that problem for the state at large and for his own popularity rating. As one far removed from the sciences, he had t…"

"Look, I spent months in Mexico and the Dominican with subcontractors. I could tell you where all the best fucking bars are in the Dominican. What I’m trying to say is that it doesn’t work. My theory i…"