“Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.”

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

Time will explain.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

He who believes needs no explanation.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.