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Science Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer
- But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are…
- There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free…
- There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free…
- The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts…
- The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
- Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
- The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.
- It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he…
- Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and…
- The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
- There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that…
- Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
- It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it…
- We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line…
- There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free…
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- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov