"In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

"Science does not know its debt to imagination"

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic"

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science"