Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.