Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.

Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions

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?

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

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

But beyond the bright searchlights of science,
Out of sight of the windows of sense,
Old riddles read more

But beyond the bright searchlights of science,
Out of sight of the windows of sense,
Old riddles still bid us defiance,
Old questions of Why and of Whence.

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