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Scientists were rated as
great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of
their faith in the orderliness of the universe. Politics is more
difficult than physics Science is a wonderful
thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. Philosophy is the science
which considers truth. There is a single light
of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. The great tragedy of
science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Science may have found a
cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-
the apathy of human beings. It is only by introducing
the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of
great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the
human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams. Organic chemistry is the
chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds
that crawl. If it's green, it's
biology, If it stinks, it's chemistry, If it has numbers it's math, If it
doesn't work, it's technology The things that will
destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality;
science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice. Every attempt to employ
mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered
profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if
mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an
aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid
and widespread degeneration of that science. Chemists are, on the
whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They don't make quite the same
wonderful mistakes, and much what they do is an art, related to cooking,
instead of a true science. They have their moments, and their sources of
legitimate pride. They don't split atoms, as the physicists do. They join
them together, and a very praiseworthy activity that is. A new scientific truth
does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light,
but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows
up that is familiar with it. Everyone has a right to a
university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. The scientific theory I
like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage. OK, so what's the speed
of dark? New ideas pass through
three periods: If rats are experimented
on they will develop cancer. Man can't help hoping
even if he is a scientist. He can only hope more accurately. Formerly, when religion
was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when
science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. Science is not a sacred
cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. Science without religion
is lame, religion without science is blind. Quantum mechanics is very
impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing.
The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of
the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.
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