It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

Science is magic that works.

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

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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.

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.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.

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.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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.

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.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

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?

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.

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.

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’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

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

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

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

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

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

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

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

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

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.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

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.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

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

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

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

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

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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

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

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

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight.

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

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.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

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.

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

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