When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow a byway, rather than the highway. It is a procedure I have subsequently recommended to beginning scientists in this country, where research strategy is best modelled on that used by Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham.

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

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

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