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.

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

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

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

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

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.