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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

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Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

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Solutions- The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is.

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I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

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

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Human science is an uncertain guess.

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Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

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