Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.

It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.