Quotes About Paradox

If Einstein was so smart how come people only call you 'Einstein' when you do something really stupid ?

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.