"Science is the record of dead religions." "A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally "Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends Or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resemble what actually "Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies "The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don’t." "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." "A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid." That they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics." "There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956), Chessmaster Science "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." "Plurality is not to be posited without necessity." "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is "A problem well stated is a problem half solved." Umberto Eco (1929-), Foucalt's Pendulum Somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that’s credulity." "If two things don’t fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that Rene Descartes (1596-1650), Discours de la Methode "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other One way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that "317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in "We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Sherlock Holmes
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts." It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. You will find that one of them is wrong." Whenever you think that you are facing aĬontradiction, check your premises. William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet, II.ii
"For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so." Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935), Chessmaster Logic "You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise." "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and thatĪll the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." "To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that Scott Elledge, on his retirement as a Professor at Cornell "It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man." "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster Golda Meir (1898-1978), to a visiting diplomat "Don’t be so humble - you are not that great."
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