Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.” — Wolf Pascoe Copy Share Image
I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves. — William James Copy Share Image
Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations. — David H. Hubel Copy Share Image
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that… — Justine Picardie Copy Share Image
Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To say we evovled from apes is an argumentative phase/I don't have time for theories or a broad thought plan/Science can't document… — C-DASH Copy Share Image
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“How do the eyes see? I don’t think the scientists have a clue about that one. There is a science within science… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
“In a last-ditch effort, some readers may pathetically attack the scientific method, claiming that all subjective perspective is flawed and cannot be… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
“A brilliant black thinker, he grew up in South Carolina, where someone called the police when young Ron tried to check out… — Leland Melvin Copy Share Image
Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it?… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like… — Scipione Breislak Copy Share Image
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image