We don’t regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Science is nothing but perception.
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Leave the atom alone.
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’
