No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state.

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.

The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.