Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies..

Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping..

I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse my curiosity, then to….

Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few p….

Research is appreciation..

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this..

In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhy….

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death..

Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supern….

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them..

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physi….

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God..

Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. ….

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the S….

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive..

The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the ….

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars..

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to me….

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writ….

A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcani….

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history..