We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.
Isaac AsimovExperimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
Isaac AsimovThe whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.
Isaac AsimovA scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.
Isaac Asimov