By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

I need physics more than friends.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

Quarks came in a number of varieties – in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks – they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It’s really counterintuitive.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‚Molecular Biology of the Gene.‘

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.