
“The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.”
Source: Letters to a Young Scientist (2013), chapter 5, "The Creative Process", page 74.
"The Man Who Named the World" (1990)
“The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.”
Source: Letters to a Young Scientist (2013), chapter 5, "The Creative Process", page 74.
“Tell me, scientist to scientist, do you honestly think it will work?”
“We won’t know until we try,” Naqi said. Any other answer would have been politically hazardous: too much optimism and the politicians would have started asking just why the expensive project was needed in the first place. Too much pessimism and they would ask exactly the same question.
Turquoise Days, Chapter 2 (pp. 240-241)
Short fiction, Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003)
Source: Linux Times, 2004-10-25 http://web.archive.org/web/20050404020308/http://www.linuxtimes.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=145,
Bernard Lewis, "The Question of Orientalism", The New York Review of Books, 24 June 1982
Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1969) http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1969/delbruck-lecture.html
As quoted in The Star (1959) and Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green.
"Mammon" an address at the London School of Economics (6 December 1963); published in Mammon and the Black Goddess (1965).
General sources
Source: Cronenberg on Cronenberg (1997), Ch. 1, P. 7