Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

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.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

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.

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.

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.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

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?

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.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

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

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

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?

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

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.

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

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

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

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

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

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.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

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.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

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

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

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.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

Research is creating new knowledge.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

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.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

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

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It’s really counterintuitive.

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.

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

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.

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

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.