No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
From Jacob Bronowski
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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