Best quotes from Scientists

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Richard Feynman said:
In general, we look for a new law by the following process: First we guess it. Then we – now don't laugh, that's really true. Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what, if this is right, if this law that we guessed is right, to see what it would imply. And then we compare the computation results to nature, or we say compare to experiment or experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn't make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. That's all there is to it.

I'll add the great Richard Feynman
 

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"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity." - Albert Einstein
 
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it - Neil deGrasse Tyson.
 
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” -Isaac Asimov
 
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan


The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Neil Degrasse Tyson.
 

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I'm an unabashed Sagan fan, so here are few of his most notable quotes;

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
Carl Sagan

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
Carl Sagan

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”
Carl Sagan

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."
Carl Sagan

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
Carl Sagan

Anyone with even the vaguest interest in science should read his book "Cosmos" and watch the accompanying DVD series of the same name.

The recently made "revisited and updated" remake with Tyson Hore-Delacey is a pale, pale reflection of the original due mainly to Sagan not being in it.
 
Can't stand that pompous ******. He's in the field of science education and communication and chooses to insult and belittle those who most need to understand science.

It's hardly fair to engage someone in a battle of wits when the other person is unarmed (paraphrased from many incorrectly-attributed quotees)
 
It's hardly fair to engage someone in a battle of wits when the other person is unarmed (paraphrased from many incorrectly-attributed quotees)
I see what you're saying, however my problem is exactly that: he engages in battle instead of education.
 
I'm an unabashed Sagan fan,
Anyone with even the vaguest interest in science should read his book "Cosmos" and watch the accompanying DVD series of the same name.
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Sagan is pretty cool.


Some more quotes of his.

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before. The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I'm down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse."


A very similar improvement in my appreciation of music has occurred with cannabis. For the first time I have been able to hear the separate parts of a three-part harmony and the richness of the counterpoint. I have since discovered that professional musicians can quite easily keep many separate parts going simultaneously in their heads, but this was the first time for me.

Again, the learning experience when high has at least to some extent carried over when I'm down. The enjoyment of food is amplified; tastes and aromas emerge that for some reason we ordinarily seem to be too busy to notice. I am able to give my full attention to the sensation. A potato will have a texture, a body, and taste like that of other potatoes, but much more so.

Cannabis also enhances the enjoyment of sex - on the one hand it gives an exquisite sensitivity, but on the other hand it postpones orgasm: in part by distracting me with the profusion of image passing before my eyes. The actual duration of orgasm seems to lengthen greatly, but this may be the usual experience of time expansion which comes with cannabis smoking."

I do not consider myself a religious person in the usual sense, but there is a religious aspect to some highs. The heightened sensitivity in all areas gives me a feeling of communion with my surroundings, both animate and inanimate."

When I'm high I can penetrate into the past, recall childhood memories, friends, relatives, playthings, streets, smells, sounds, and tastes from a vanished era. I can reconstruct the actual occurrences in childhood events only half understood at the time. Many but not all my cannabis trips have somewhere in them a symbolism significant to me which I won't attempt to describe here, a kind of mandala embossed on the high. Free-associating to this mandala, both visually and as plays on words, has produced a very rich array of insights."
 
Can't stand that pompous ******. He's in the field of science education and communication and chooses to insult and belittle those who most need to understand science.
Some folk can't be educated as their minds are either shut or clogged.
 

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