In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it..

Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists; ….

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic..

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn….

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world..

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge..

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers..

There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to fa….

In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for i….

Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indul….

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, ….

Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the….

There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their comm….

Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, n….

George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology….

But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, an….

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science..

There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives….

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry cl….

I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance. What would actually hap….

By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a de….