Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction.

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.