The scientist explains everything except himself.

Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish a framework on which the spirit may rise.

If science tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. It if tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water, it is all wrong.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"

... the scientific trilogy: observation, hypothesis, experiment.