Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century..

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry ….

Zeroth law: You must play the game First law: You can't win Second law: You can't break even Third law: You can't quit the game..

If you pursue happiness you never find it..

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it..

No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one….

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time..

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever b….

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose..

The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industriali….

There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another ge….

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist..

The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological Ede….

This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present prac….

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. B….

I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is….

By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespear….

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it..

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along..

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it..

Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings..