1. “Progress is the exploration of our own error.”
2. “The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.”
3. “Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.”
4. “To me most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.”
5. “There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes and the idea of chance.”
6. “Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.”
7. “Certainty ends inquiry.”
8. “The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.”
9. “Dissent is the mark of freedom.”
10. “Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.”
11. “Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.”
12. “The progress of scienec is the discovery at each step f a new order which gives unity to what ha seemed unlike.”
13. “No science is immune to the infection of politics ad the corruption of power.”
14. “The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”
15. “Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”
16. “We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to give them their head.”
17. “Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.”
18. “The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.”
19. “All science is the search for unity in hidden likeness.”
20. “Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.”
21. “A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.”
22. “Power is the by-product of understanding.”
23. “Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.”
24. “One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.”
25. “The symbol and the metaphor ae necessary to science as to poetry.”
26. “To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet’s mind, or the painter’s, or the scientist’s but of the mind of man.”
27. “Every judgement in science stands on the edge of error and is personal.”
28. “The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.”
29. “Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.”
30. “To me, being intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”
