It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.
When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.