There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more satisfactory, still more emotionally exciting discovery that the theory is not quite right and has… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready. — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image