Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They arent thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement. – John Charles Polanyi
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. – James C. Maxwell
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. – Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science, 1995
Ive had people ask me in interviews what its like to have money, but thats not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW. – Beth Ditto
And I dont have any specific steps to take because I dont start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when its enough and you can leave it alone. – Bruce Nauman
Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I cant imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous. – Ellen Page
