Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.