It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker. [ ]
All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.
An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
All her life, dreams had been her friends. Her dreams were unusually detailed, well-structured, colorful.
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
