It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.