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.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

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.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

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.

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