A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value..

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way..

The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design..

Experimental science is the queen of knowledge..

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt..

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians..

Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recogn….

There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretr….

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens..

Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domai….

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling..

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may….

I'm getting more famouser by the day!.

Science is public, not private, knowledge..

The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of….

How many times have I created to destroy?.

The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes;….

I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α , β, γ….

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of soc….

It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up..

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other k….