Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

The truth is, that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Science has zipped the atom open in a dozen places, it can read the scrawlings on the Rosetta stone as glibly as a literary critic explains Hart Crane, but it doesn't know anything about playwrights.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:- We murder to dissect.

How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?

This is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to a pertinent answer.

Art is I; science is we.