Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

The Romans called the Christians atheists. Why? Well, the Christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn't a real god. They didn't believe in the divinity of apotheosized emperors or Olympian gods. They had a peculiar, different kind of god. So it was very easy to call people who believed in a different kind of god atheists. And that general sense that an atheist is anybody who doesn't believe exactly as I do prevails in our own time.

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.