Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God ….

We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages i….

Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to his cultural evolut….

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal..

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created..

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power..

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture..

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together..

There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness t….

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science..

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them..

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind..

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to pr….

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge..

The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men. There is no problem, a….

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the….

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethi….

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet ar….

All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mist….

The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars..

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them..