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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny…” - Isaac Asimov
After two years of trying, scientists at the Yerkes Regional Primate Center have managed to get a chimpanzee pregnant. Which proves that no task is repugnant to a true scientist. - Anon
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division. - Anon
Correspondence Corollary: An experiment may be considered a success if no more than half your data must be discarded to obtain correspondence with your theory. - Anon
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a “hottest part” implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part … Continue reading
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein