Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself..

In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law….

To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, "What would the world be like if it were true?" The operationist asks, "What would ….

The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently..

Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the sma….

A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientist….

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife..

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding..

Experience is of particulars only..

We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory,….

There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job..

A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's s….