Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.