Archimedes said Eureka, Cos in English he weren't too aversed in, when he discovered that the volume of a body in the bath, is equal to the stuff it ….
But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos, and the nature ….
The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must….
I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themse….
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly ….
I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant ra….
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned ….
Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too..
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice..
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention….
The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which even….
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but i….
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint….
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experien….
If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor..
All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences a….
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another..
Knowledge is the death of research..
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment..
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as….
As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistic….