Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

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

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.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.