As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility to become a….

These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse….

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and th….

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer..

Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs..

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past..

Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations..

True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes..

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge m….

It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in ten different ways at once….

Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not ….

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universiti….

Science advances one funeral at a time..

Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and i….

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth..

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk ….

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects we….

Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body once move….

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value..

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other..

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points..