But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?.

The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of significance a….

Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten….

Is anything accidental?.

The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of X-r….

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.….

I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expressio….

If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of di….

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists..

... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of know….

In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made to feel that science is, in the….

Watching something is nothing like doing it..

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts..

You can't always say what you'd like to say..

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases..

There are good places to play and bad places..

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact..

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scien….

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us..

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis..

It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur bu….