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Isn't it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars?

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact or the description of one actual phenomenon to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect, but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through, it is not comprehended in its entireness.

Science is always wrong; it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Science is what you know; philosophy what you don't know.

Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted? Or does (such a society) necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

Science is for those who learn; poetry is for those who know.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, / hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There is science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.