Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

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

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

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.