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

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.