“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honestand scientists have to bewe must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of...”

“The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.”

“Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.”

“If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.”

“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea ...”

“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 myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”