“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
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“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”
“We're made of star stuff.”
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“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”
“Knowledge comes by taking things apart, but wisdom comes by putting things together.”
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
“The greatest thing about being a scientist is you never have to grow up.”
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“I’m going to go down getting my data. That’s the only reason I chase. It’s for the data.”
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“Back off man, I'm a scientist.”
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“The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”
“This console here was the best part of my life. And I spent almost 10 years at this console. It is my life, it will always be my life. And I will never leave it behind.”
“Houston, it looks like we got us a Dragon by the tail.”
“Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.”
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
“If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
“We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.”
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
“Accept nothing, challenge everything.”