He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).

You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.