Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

It is often claimed that knowledge multiplies so rapidly that nobody can follow it. I believe this is incorrect. At least in science it is not true. The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. This, of course, goes contrary to what everyone accepts.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.