Science and Reason

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Science is nothing but perception.

For he by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale.

God so commanded, and left that command Sole daughter of his voice; the rest, we live Law to ourselves, our reason is our law.

The starry Galileo, with his woes.

Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest.

By convention there is colour, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.

Now, what I want is, Facts … Facts alone are wanted in life.