The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
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.
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.
I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.
I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.
If there ever was a misnomer, it is “exact science.” Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.
When you’re certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.
There’s no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.
I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
Physics without mathematics is meaningless.
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.
There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be.