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

The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor.

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

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

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

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.

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.