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

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

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.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Science is nothing but perception.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn’t reduce to physics. So it’s just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

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.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

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

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

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.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

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.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

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?

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

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.

It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?

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.

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.

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.

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

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

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

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.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

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

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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

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.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

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

And yet it moves.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.