We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.