It is rather pedantic to say that science never explains anything, but it is true to say that its explanations are never in terms of purpose.

Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

"Science" means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science. And there is certainly no scientific reason why God cannot retain the same position in our modern world that he held before we began probing his creation with telescope and cyclotron.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.