It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.
Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?
Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
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