Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.

There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.