Perfect as the wing of a bird may be it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Except in very narrow cases where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you you're toast anyway.

You know there was a time just before I started to study physical science when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

As a theoretical physicist I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science the Nobel prize.

While that amendment failed human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

Science exists moreover only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

Today Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values we believed than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

It is this at its most basic that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

Science never gives up searching for truth since it never claims to have achieved it.

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Science does not permit exceptions.

Experimentation is an active science.

In teaching man experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes like the objective reality of things will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

In Poland my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

In the spirit of science there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Like many students I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.