If pure scientists were motivated by curiousity alone, they should be delighted when someone else solves the problem they are working on — but that is not the usual reaction.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20/20 hindsight. It’s good for seeing where you’ve been. It’s good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can’t tell you where you ought to go.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

We vivisect the nightingale To probe the secret of his note.

The more things doctors are able to do, the more likely that at least a few doctors won’t do them. And the result will be more people suing for negligence.

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.