Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers... This is not yet a scientific age.

I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention--it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature. Any word can be spelled just as well a different way.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion