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If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”

“I apologize for writing such a long letter, but I didn’t have time to write a short one.” – Mark Twain

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell

Nobody’s honest. Scientists are not honest. And people usually believe that they are. That makes it worse. By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you…

I fully agree with you concerning the pseudo-science of astrology. The interesting point is that this kind of superstition is so tenacious that it could persist through so many centuries.

“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” – W. Edwards Deming

“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best…

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent…

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them. – Erwin Schrödinger:…

“Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.” “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered…

“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.”— Richard P. Feynman.