Science and Reason

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters .

Definite speech means clarity of mind.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact .

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

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose .

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

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of color at long distances.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

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.