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.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.