Science, Like Art, Is Not A Copy

The Paradox Of Knowledge Is Not Confined To The Small, Atomic Scale; On The Contrary, It Is As Cogent On The Scale Of Man, And Even Of The Stars.

Every Judgment In Science Stands On The Edge Of Error, And Is Personal.

The Air In A Man's Lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 Atoms, So That Sooner Or Later Every One Of Us Breathes An Atom That Has Been Breathed Before By Anyone You Can Think Of Who Has Ever Lived - Michelangelo Or George Washington Or Moses.

The Most Remarkable Discovery Ever Made By Scientists Is Science Itself. The Discovery Must Be Compared In Importance With The Invention Of Cave-painting And Of Writing.

[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.