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.

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

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I am tempted to say that we do not look for truth, but for knowledge. But I dislike this form of words, for two reasons. First of all, we do look for truth, however we define it, it is what we find that is knowledge. And second, what we fail to find is not truth, but certainty; the nature of truth is exactly the knowledge that we do find.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...