“It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.” MenHelpingInterestLordStepsEssentialsAffairAdministrationServantCivil Servants Author:Ernest Rutherford
“Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do.” WantDoeWillingFairness Author:Judith Martin
“They figured out a way to control that hamburger disease. You dip the hamburger into the scalding hot coffee before eating.” WayDiseaseEatingHotCoffeeDipHamburgers Author:David Letterman
“I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.” PeopleUseDrunkObservationStatisticsIllumination Author:Alfred E. Perlman
“Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.” HeartSuccessfulColdExperimentsTheorists Book:Preface Source: Preface
“I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.” ProcessProductsEvolutionRateException Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Science tells us what we have reason to believe. Not what we have a duty to believe. Not what experts, in their pontificating wisdom, instruct us to believe... No, science tells us what there is good reason to believe.” BelieveReasonDutyExperts Author:Richard Dawkins
“Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.” ArtComplexityArt And Science Author:Lancelot Law Whyte
“After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.” YearsHas BeensDoneRealizingWeekResearchCould Have Been Author:William Henry Bragg