Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the Longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. Many undergraduates come to Caltech simply to enjoy the social life. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die outĪnd that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the Winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saulīecomes Paul. Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.Īn important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually If you torture the data enough, it will confess. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.īeware of the man who won't be bothered with details. The scientist describes what is the engineer creates what never was.Ī reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment.Īn unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite There's no sense in being precise about something when you don't even know what you're talking about.Īny intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.
One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Translation: That's not just not right it is not even wrong. Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig es ist nicht einmal falsch!