Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Science should be on tap, not on top.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

As soon as questions of will or decision arise, human science is at a loss.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences."

Religion needs science, to protect it from religion's greatest danger, superstition.