The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

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.

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.

It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.

The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.