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….

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense..

To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in the m….

Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines..

Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnish….

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthrop….

"Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagi….