Science Is A Tribute To What We

It Doesn't Matter Whether You're Talking About Bombs Or The Intelligence Quotients Of One Race As Against Another If A Man Is A Scientist, Like Me, He'll Always Say Publish And Be Damned.

[john] Dalton Was A Man Of Regular Habits. For Fifty-seven Years He Walked Out Of Manchester Every Day; He Measured The Rainfall, The Temperature-a Singularly Monotonous Enterprise In This Climate. Of All That Mass Of Data, Nothing Whatever Came. But Of The One Searching, Almost Childlike Question About The Weights That Enter The Construction Of These Simple Molecules-out Of That Came Modern Atomic Theory. That Is The Essence Of Science: Ask An Impertinent Question, And You Are On The Way To The Pertinent Answer.

One Aim Of Physical Sciences Had Been To Give An Exact Picture The Material World. One Achievement Of Physics In The Twentieth Century Has Been To Prove That That Aim Is Unattainable.

The Central Opposition Between Magic And Science Is The Opposition Between Power And Knowledge.

I Set Out To Show That There Exists Single Creative Activity,which Is Displayed Alike In The Arts And In The Sciences.it Is Wrong To Think Of Science As A Mechanical Record Of Facts, And It Is Wrong To Think Of The Arts As Remote And Private Fancies. What Makes Each Human, What Makes Them Universal, Is The Stamp Of The Creative Mind.