Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for the appreciator must see the movement, wake to the echo which was started in the...
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal...
Power is the by-product of understanding.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal l...
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to give them their head.
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with wha...
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist'...
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
We are all afraid - for our confidence for the future for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man every civilization has gone forward because of its engagement with w...