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Science Quotes by Richard Hamming
- Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top…
- Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of…
- Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the…
- It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.
- A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the…
- Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each…
- There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- 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
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- 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