a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one ... in the creative process there is no such clear goal.

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

Nothing in science has any value if it is not communicated.