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….

Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger..

Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the….

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality..

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly..

But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elemen….

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent..

The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false concep….

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignifican….