"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."

"The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor."

"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."

"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."

"Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it."

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."

"We're all living in a chemical soup."