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 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.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

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

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

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?

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

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.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

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.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

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.

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.

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

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

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.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

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

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

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

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

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

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

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

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

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.

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

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.