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.

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

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.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.