Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.