It is our capacity to doubt that will determine the future of civilization.
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a stud...
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
Therefore, did learn a lesson: The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry. Those people who have for years been insisting (in the face of all obvious evidence to the contrary) that...
[Doubt] is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men who made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a go...
The laws of physics could be like an onion, with new laws becoming operational as we probe new scales. We simply don't know!
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "Y...
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
You just have to know what the right laws are under the right circumstances, and design the device with the correct laws. You cannot expect old designs to work in new circumstances. But new designs ca...
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.