Thomas Gold Quotes

Thomas Gold offers a dry, intellectual quip on theory that will tickle anyone who loves clever scientific jokes.

3 quotes

1. A theorist can explain any correlation, and its inverse.

2. I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

3. In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.