Quotes About Perspective

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling.

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.

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.