An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.