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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science.

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.