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We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred t...

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

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In 1966, after arriving in New York, I read two of Luria's books, Higher Cortical Functions in Man and Human Brain and Psychological Processes. The latter, which contained very full case histories of...

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo.

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather tha...

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since there is no evidence for species changes between the simplest f...

I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding: For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but of such as pass by us daily.

O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?

Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of...

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the ear...

We're all a genius, but If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of...

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some influence on Teller, [for] Teller was quite generous in allowing me one whole semester off to be at Berk...

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatom...

Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness

until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone