If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.