Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

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

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

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

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

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.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

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

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

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

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

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

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

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.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

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 grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

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

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

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

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

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.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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