“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the...” — Theodore Roszak Quote

“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.”

“You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.”

“There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.”

“It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.”

“Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.”

“Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.”