If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy and support so essential to its progress.

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

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.

Basic scientific research is scientific capital.

Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good.

Love is like a flower - you have to let it grow.

We live in a context, but we're also individuals. We need to explore both.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.

I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details. ~Mayuri Kurotsuchi

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.