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.

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

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

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

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages in some way. And from this code of information we then make a basic vocabulary of concepts and a basic grammar of laws, which jointly describe the inner organization that nature translates into the happenings and the appearances we meet.

Power is the by-product of understanding.