Quotes

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
 ~Oscar Wilde

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
  ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that
it is expected to work.
 ~John Von Neumann

The tendency to believe that things never change, the inertia of daily existence, is a staple of living. It has always been a delusion.
  ~Donald A. Wollheim

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
  ~Isaac Asimov