I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

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

Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.

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

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.