"Science is not a special sense. It is as wide as the literal meaning of its name: knowledge."

"We cannot change our character, we can only enlarge it. If we are wise, then we go on learning all through life, and …"

"These are the moments when the powerful mind or the forceful character feels the ferment of the times, when his thoug…"

"The air in a man's lungs contains 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breat…"

"I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two lang…"

"The most modest research worker at his bench, pushing a probe into a neuron to measure the electric response when a l…"

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

"It has been one of the most destructive modern prejudices that art and science are different and somehow incompatible…"

"The sneer that science is only critical came from others. It was made by the timid and laboured artists of the nineti…"

"Unhappily, common sense has no recorded history."