Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that read more

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and read more

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as
evidence of a heightened read more

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as
evidence of a heightened sensibility.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.