Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.