Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work those that break down and those that get lost.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

Of course the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6 000 million talking upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat leading to bad science and worse religion.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.