A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

I was somebody who never loved my hair. I had curly hair and wished it was straight.

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.

In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.

That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood.