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By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as…

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The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust…
My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many…
Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.
I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than…
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in…
Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the…
The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who…
I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance…
The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all…
The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable,…

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