“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Science
Arthur C. Clarke on Science Fiction
“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.” Continue reading
Isaac Asimov on Computers
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.” Continue reading
Thomas A. Edison on Failure
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Continue reading
Emile Chartier on Ideas
“There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.” Continue reading
R. Buckminster Fuller on Technology
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” Continue reading
Douglas Adams on Space
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” Continue reading
John F. Kennedy on Politics
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.” Continue reading
Albert Einstein on Science
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.” Continue reading
Marie Curie on Understanding
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Continue reading