Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.