Very - Quotes
The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.
There`s very little point carrying on a conversation with someone who is absolutely convinced you are wrong and bad.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
I do love him. I’ve loved him without ceasing. I’ve loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore that I didn’t. I can’t help it, I just do.
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn`t require religion at all.
Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math.
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It’s an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
The less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.