The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

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

A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.