Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her..

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separatio….

Who has not hoped To outrage an enemy's dignity? Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt? And who has not thought that the impersonal world Deserv….

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, ….

Dissent is the mark of freedom..

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty..

The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed befor….

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man..

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….

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..

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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