But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself

If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world.

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.

There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.