The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

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

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.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

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

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.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

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

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

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

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It’s crazy. That’s my Alexander Wang theory.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

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.

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.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

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

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

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

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

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

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.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

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.

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

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

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.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

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

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

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.