That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a few acres; it….

I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You'v….

Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowl….

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present ….

Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies o….

The mind is an evolved computer program..

Are you making life or is life making you?.

She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for..

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it..

Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide….

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality..

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the sam….

Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something!.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors..

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated..

'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus.….

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating..

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me..

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties..

I am not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie!.

The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake..