The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it..

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in ….

It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad..

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….

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than oth….