It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.