When you start using test audiences, it becomes more scientific than it is about the work itself, and that's boring.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It w...
The third oddity was the surface on which Lawrence was doing his own succussion. It was a huge, black leather-bound King James Bible. Having done three raps on the Bible, his fist clenched around a vial containing a homeopathic remedy made from ameth...
The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes the appearance of the new truth, like the pain of childbirth. It is...
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have prov...
I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing. : You're n...
In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I an now convinced that scientific truth is unassail...
My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
I don't like writing essays or theory.
I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.
There is no complete theory of anything.
One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
I've never been much for theory and scales.
