Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.