"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
"It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science."
"Imagination is the highest form of research."
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
"Curiosity is more important than knowledge."