I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Robert Quillen
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Russell Baker
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz
