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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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 fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.