Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could do the same. So why haven't they come to Earth?

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.