Quotes about "Science & Discovery"

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. ”

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. ”

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen. ”

Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger? ”

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences. ”

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within. ”

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. ”

When I became president with a commitment to reform health care, Hillary was a natural to head the health care task force. You all know we failed because we couldn't break a Senate filibuster. Hillary immediately went to work on solving the problems the bill sought to address one by one. ”

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes. ”

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. ”