A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''

It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.