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.

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.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

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.

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.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Science is but an image of the truth.

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

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Young people can create beautiful things.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

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

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

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

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

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.

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

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

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.

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

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

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

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

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

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?