The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952)
There are other disturbing factors ... One is the growing interrelations between professional organizations and industry, and between science and industry. Speech to Garden Club of America (1963)