All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing..

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool..

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and n….

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy..

The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of inventio….

The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or ….

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress..

On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes of….

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall..

[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as a chemist, I….

[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the….

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is….

There's nothing wrong with being an agitator..

Don't talk yourself into not being you..

An unshared happiness is not happiness..

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his face, reflected on the i….

You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it..

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to compre….

In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely t….

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester..

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as….