JaimeG & Co.

God is REAL...
unless declared INTEGER

At best, you can substantiate a hypothesis by ruling out, statistically, a whole long list of competing hypotheses, every one that has ever been proposed. After a while your adversaries and competitors will give up trying to think of alternative hypotheses, or else they will grow old and die, and then your hypothesis will become accepted. Sounds crazy, we know, but that's how science works!

¡If I could remember the names of all these damned particles, I'd be a botanist, not a physicist!

It is not the knowledge but the learning, not the possessing, but the earning, not the being there but the getting there, which gives us the greatest pleasure

La democracia es imposible en un país de analfabetos científicos

If a religion is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money

Newton sat in an orchard, and an apple, plumping down on his head, started a train of thought which opened the heavens to us. Had it been in California, the size of the apples there would have saved him the trouble of much thinking thereafter, perhaps, opening the heavens to him, and not to us

The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.... Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals

Pristine, perfect. One of the great livers of our time. Awash in Dewars and full of health

El fútbol es un deporte de once contra once en el que siempre ganan los alemanes

Some physicists may be happy to have a set of working rules leading to results in agreement with observation. They may think that this is the goal of physics. But it is not enough. One wants to understand how Nature works

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic

A problem is a chance for you to do your best

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...'