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

By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

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

It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.

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

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.