| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Fools | The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
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| Humanities | The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.
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| Knowledge | I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
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| National debt | There are a hundred billion stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
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| Reality | For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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| Science | Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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| Science | 1. We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong. (p. 152)
2. We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress. (p. 152)
3. You cannot prove a vague theory wrong. (p. 152)
4. The problem is not just to say something might be wrong; but to replace it by something – and that is not so easy. (p. 155)
5. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is no good if it only tells you what just went on. (p. 158)
6. It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is. (p. 159)
It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.
- (Physicist and father of the Thermonuclear bomb) | |
| Scientists | I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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