Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

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

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

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.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

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 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.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Power is competence.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.