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

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

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