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1. "God made integers, all else is the work of man."

Leopold Kronecker

2. "Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"

Iris Murdoch, "The Book and the Brotherhood"

3. "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

Paul Dirac

Quotations about: Art and Culture

4. "Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."

Paul Ambroise Valéry

5. "In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."

John C. Dvorak

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

6. "I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."

Thomas Carlyle

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

7. "All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."

Denis Diderot

8. "There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies."

Raoul Vaneigem, "The Revolution of Everyday Life"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

9. "Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."

Miguel de Unamuno, "The Tragic Sense of Life"

10. "There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."

Louis Pasteur

11. "In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

Johann von Neumann

12. "To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."

William James, "The Letters of William James"

Quotations about: Various

13. "Philosophy begins in wonder."

Plato, "Theatetus"

14. "It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "The New Eloise"

15. "Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

16. "The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Collected Essays"

17. "Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know."

Joseph Roux, "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

18. "Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

Henry Brooks Adams, (about philosophy)

Quotations about: Question and Problem

19. "My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to."

Henry Brooks Adams

20. "Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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21. "The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

22. "The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things [...] have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower."

Edith Hamilton, "The Greek Way"

Quotations about: Human

23. "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

Carl Sagan

Quotations about: Various

24. "Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment."

Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

25. "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

Anon.

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

26. "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, "Physiologie du Gout"

Quotations about: Happiness

27. "[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form."

Evan Esar, "Esar's Comic Dictionary"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

28. "[Hypothesis] Something murdered by facts."

Anon.

Quotations about: Question and Problem

29. "Facts without theory is trivia. Theory without facts is bullshit."

Anon.

30. "[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics."

Evan Esar, "Esar's Comic Dictionary"

31. "History is statistics in a state of progression; statistics is history at a stand."

Ludwig Schlozer

Quotations about: History and Nations

32. "Probability is truth in some degree."

Errol E. Harris, "Hypothesis and Perception"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

33. "A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

34. "Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have a single answer."

Edmund C. Berkeley, "Computers and Automation"

Quotations about: Question and Problem

35. "I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it."

Thomas Alva Edison

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

36. "Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."

Galileo Galilei

37. "Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

Richard Feynman

38. "Science is built up with 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."

Henri Poincare, "Of Science and Hypotheses"

39. "Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."

Ann Landers

Quotations about: Human

40. "The great book of nature is written in mathematical symbols."

Galileo Galilei

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

41. "A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense."

Anon.

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

42. "TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public."

Douglas Coupland, "JPod"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

43. "The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on forecasters."

Anon.

Quotations about: Richness and Money

44. "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."

Niels Bohr

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

45. "In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

Galileo Galilei

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

46. "It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover."

Henri Poincare

47. "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Quotations about: Various

48. "Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you."

Fran Lebowitz

Quotations about: Youth and Age

49. "Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky."

Arthur Koestler

Quotations about: Art and Culture

50. "One good thing about my computer: it never asks why."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Quotations about: Question and Problem

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