The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

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.

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.

It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.