Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

Intelligence is not a science.

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science.