I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man..

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to q….

There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writin….

A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putt….

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer..

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of….

Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about n….

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowle….

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike..

The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and ….

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry..

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts..

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought..

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold..

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I lear….

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, h….

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think..

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws..

Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, ….

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manife….

It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual.