"It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of." ― Jean Rostand Topic(s): Science More From Jean Rostand "In politics, yesterday’s lie is attacked only to flatter today’s." "Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us." "Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood – we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we." More In Science "Software Engineering might be science; but that’s not what I do. I’m a hacker, not an engineer."― Jamie Zawinski "Clarity affords focus."― Thomas Leonard "Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."― Aleister Crowley