But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude survival kit;….

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural ev….

This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of ….

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injust….

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will ….

[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a s….

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we….

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….

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 native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is le….

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the….

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….

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike..

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

When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the machines of Newton .….

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

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..

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.

In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness..

Dissent is the mark of freedom..