In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea read more

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish
the barriers of nationality.
[Ger., Wissenschaft read more

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish
the barriers of nationality.
[Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren der Welt an, und vor ihhen
verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalitat.]

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them read more

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as read more

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil
set off a tornado in Texas?

Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil
set off a tornado in Texas?

The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as
in almost all science. . . read more

The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as
in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will
depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the
astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.

For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.