I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.