The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

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.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Science is magic that works.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

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 development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

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.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

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

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

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

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

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?

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

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.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

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.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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

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

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

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

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

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.