Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.
Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
