1. “Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.”
2. “My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.”
3. “Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men lie, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.”
4. “In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.”
5. “Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.”
6. “The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.”
7. “To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than it shall run noiselessly.”
8. “Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”
9. “The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. the pessimist fears it is true.”
10. “I need physics more than friends.”
11. “No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.”
12. “The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.”
13. “There are no secrets about the world of nature. there are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.”
14. “Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in tying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.”
15. “Genius sees the answer before the question.”
16. “We know that wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.”
17. “The most beautiful philosophical song wxiting in any known tongue.”
18. “The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.”
19. “The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.”
20. “We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.”
21. “Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.”
22. “There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.”
23. “In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.”
24. “We know too much for one man to know too much.”
25. “In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely be our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything.”
26. “A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.”
27. “Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.”
28. “When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.”
29. “The greatest of the change that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.”
30. “Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.”
