Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

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We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.

The great thing about change, is that it absolutely, positively, always means things are going to get even better. Even when you don't know how.

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.