“An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.”

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

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?

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

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

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

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

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

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.