Quotes of: Isaac Keyword

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

Ron Eglash

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

Robert B. Laughlin

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Richard Powers

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Rudy Rucker

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Rudy Rucker

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Stephen Hawking

We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.

Tim Holden

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Paul D. Boyer

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Chauncey Wright

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Christopher Wren

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.

Alexander Graham Bell

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Arthur Eddington

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Arthur Eddington

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

Aaron Klug

The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

Antony Garrett Lisi

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

Adrien-Marie Legendre

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Archer John Porter Martin