“Freedom, the first-born of science.” — Thomas Jefferson Quote

“Freedom, the first-born of science.”

“None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.”

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”

“That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical activity that dries the heartbeat is as exciting to me -- actually more exciting -- than such phenomena were when I was a small boy and thought them divinely (in the supernatural sense) driven.”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

“We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.”