There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.