"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."

"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like."

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."

"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."

"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."

"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

"I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe."

"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more."

"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."