The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

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.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

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.

Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.