Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.

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

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

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.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.