It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

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

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

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.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

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

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

The wisest have the most authority.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.