Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.
Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
I believe I’ve found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.
‘I don’t need brains,’ says the billionaire contemptuously. ‘I’m brainy enough myself!’ The broker cries out in desperation, ‘What, in heaven’s name, do you want?’ ‘Goodness,’ is the answer.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.