We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.