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If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.