Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.

In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.