In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

Experimentation is an active science.

Science does not permit exceptions.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.