From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

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

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

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.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

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

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

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

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 usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

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

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you’re not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it’s actually space that’s moving.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

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.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

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

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Jurisdictions across the U.S. are snapping up algorithms as tools to help judges make bail and bond decisions. They’re being sold as race- and gender-neutral assessments that allow judges to use science in determining whether someone will behave if released from jail pending trial.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

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.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Integrity has no need of rules.

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

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

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.