Quotes Tagged With :scientist

But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think....

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably....

The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with....

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but....

It was almost romantic, in a mad-inventor sort of way.

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material....

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically....

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of....

Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes....