If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Tell me why the stars do shine, Tell me why the ivy twines, Tell me what makes skies so blue, And I'll tell you why I love you. Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine, Tropisms make the ivy twine, Raleigh scattering make skies so blue, Testicular hormones are why I love you.
Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"
We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a good grasp of science. The ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, questions of diet and heredity. All require scientific literacy. Can Americans choose the proper leaders and support the proper programs if they themselves are scientifically illiterate? The whole premise of democracy is that it is safe to leave important questions to the court of public opinion - but is it safe to leave them to the court of public ignorance?
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.
I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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