“A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.”
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“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.”
“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”
“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”
“If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.”
“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”
“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.”
“I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.”
“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.”
“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”
“In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.”
“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
“There are no shortcuts in evolution.”
“Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'”
“When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.”
“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.”
“From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.”
“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”
“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”
“It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.”