Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that read more

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on
the human mind it has overcome man's read more

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on
the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself
and before nature.

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to read more

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and read more

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology

Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil
set off a tornado in Texas?

Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil
set off a tornado in Texas?

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them read more

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.