If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a
botanist.

If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a
botanist.

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to read more

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are
on the way to a pertinent answer.

The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are
on the way to a pertinent answer.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

But beyond the bright searchlights of science,
Out of sight of the windows of sense,
Old riddles read more

But beyond the bright searchlights of science,
Out of sight of the windows of sense,
Old riddles still bid us defiance,
Old questions of Why and of Whence.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.