Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.