Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Art is I science is we.