"A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation."

"When we decode a cookbook, every one of us is a practicing chemist. Cooking is really the oldest, most basic application of physical and chemical forces to natural materials."

"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."

"Leave the atom alone."

"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics."

"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."

"Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world."

"In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than science fiction."

"The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market."

"Science is... one of the great human endeavors to be ranked with arts and religion as the guide and expression of man's fearless quest for truth."