Ahmed

“My advice to those who wish to learn the art of scientific prophecy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents, the facts of experience.”
― Max Born

“Owen. He coined the term Dinosauria in 1841. It means 'terrible lizard' and was a curiously inapt name.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“He transformed number from a useful tool into the central principle of life. He called his new philosophy µαθηµατικη (mathematics).”
― William Rankin, Introducing Newton: A Graphic Guide

“Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only "pseudo problems," because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless.”
― P. W. Bridgman