If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has given mankind a….

[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary fac….

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life..

A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on the other….

It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact, there appears ….

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside….

Everything was invented when somebody was alone..

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so..

[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse….

A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled ….

Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the mor….

What you do for money you do badly..

From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account o….

I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have ….

This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, o….

I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to live my life again, I would alway….

In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out ….

Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization..

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of twenty facts….

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code..

I'm against reparations. At this point, blacks should just be handing money to themselves..