“Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.”
“After all, she may have thought, do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies beyond the reach of words?”
“The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything.”
“Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.”
“...science, to quote your own words, is nothing else than a 'strange hankering after differences'. Her essence could not be better defined. For men of science nothing is so important as the clear definition of differences.”
“If everything is perfect, nobody has to say a word.”