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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
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.
The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.