It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
Nothing retains less of desire in art in science than this will to industry booty possession.
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.
There are no such things as applied sciences only applications of science.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
In science we must be interested in things not in persons.
Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it and it always has been.
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Science and literature are not two things but two sides of one thing.
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Science is nothing but perception.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.