Science and technology

Science                                                                [465 - 739]

Science is an understanding of the world and art is its spirit.

About the natural sciences:
- Biology, if it is green or moving.
- Chemistry, if it smells.
- Physics, if that doesn't work.
- Mathematics, if it is incomprehensible.
- Economics or psychology, if it doesn't seem to make sense.

Hindsight is the most exact science.

In science, the one who convinces the world gets the credit, not the one who first came up with the idea.

Never repeat a successful experiment.

Every definition is a limit.

An exception never confirms a rule, but destroys it.

Regarding scientific research: The results are always good, as long as there is nothing equivalent to which they can be compared.

With statistics you can prove anything if you just collect enough suitable material.

An economist is a person who can express the obvious in an incomprehensible way.

If the facts don't support the theory, it must get rid of them.

Science commits suicide when it accepts only a certain doctrine.

The function of the expert is not to be more right than others, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons.

If you steal an idea from one person, you are guilty of plagiarism, but if you steal them from many, you are doing scientific research.

The only way to rule over nature is to obey it.

Technology

All systems must be designed to withstand the worst possible case.

Everything assembled falls apart sooner or later.

Computers are unreliable, but people are even more unreliable.

The fewer different functions the device has, the better it works and lasts. Example; Compare a hammer to a car.

Complicated systems lead to unpredictable consequences.

Any system that relies on human reliability is unreliable.

Nothing is so good that it could not be made even better.

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