Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together... perceptible phenomena... through systematic thought.