The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
Planck... and Bohr... have invented systems containing electrons of which the motion produces no effect upon external charges... Not only is this inconsistent with the accepted laws of...
Infinity... is used in physics simply as a shorthand for a very big number.
My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any...
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered to be the observable facts!
Noether's theorem fused together symmetries and conservation laws - these two giant pillars of physics are actually nothing but different facets of the same fundamental property.
In his eighteenth-century system of the world, Newton brought together two themes. Embodied in his calculus and physics, one Newtonian revelation rendered the physical world predictable and...
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. - EDWIN P. HUBBLE {1889–1953}, The Nature of Science
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...