The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages in some way. And from this code of information we then make a basic vocabulary of concepts and a basic grammar of laws, which jointly describe the inner organization that nature translates into the happenings and the appearances we meet.

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.