Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

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

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

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.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

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