science

“The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

“There can be no truce between science and religion.”

“The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”

“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.”

“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”

“It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.”

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”

“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”

“I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.”