Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
Terry PratchettIf anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
Isaac NewtonThere are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HippocratesThose thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
VoltaireRomance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar WildeJurisdictions across the U.S. are snapping up algorithms as tools to help judges make bail and bond decisions. They’re being sold as race- and gender-neutral assessments that allow judges to use science in determining whether someone will behave if released from jail pending trial.
John KennedyI need physics more than friends.
J. Robert OppenheimerSome 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.
Stephen HawkingNature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da VinciI had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
Kurt VonnegutI 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.
Mark ZuckerbergTime can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.
Stephen HawkingSuccess is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar WildeScience is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
Leonardo da VinciThe pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Benjamin DisraeliI do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
Jean-Paul SartreFrom 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.
Richard P. FeynmanTo raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert EinsteinI think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
Elon MuskWe want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Paulo CoelhoThe product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl MarxI 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.
Jimmy CarterScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel KantThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan PoeTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac NewtonEvolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.
Terry PratchettElectricity is really just organized lightning.
George CarlinI think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Galileo GalileiScience is nothing but perception.
PlatoElectrical 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.
Nikola TeslaI call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald ReaganWe should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques RousseauAs 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.
Stephen HawkingIt 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.
Richard P. FeynmanScience is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamNo 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.
Noam ChomskyThe 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.
Richard P. FeynmanGod may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
Stephen HawkingI am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl SaganMy message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.
Greta ThunbergEurope is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Aldous HuxleyIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo GalileiIt stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert EinsteinGravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.
Richard P. FeynmanIt is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert OppenheimerIt 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.
Jim MattisBecause atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.
Richard P. FeynmanI 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.
Terry PratchettScience and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
Thich Nhat HanhI grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
Margaret AtwoodWriting is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.
Paulo CoelhoEnglish 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.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thomas SowellIf we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
Stephen HawkingScience in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAmong physicists, I’m respected I hope.
Stephen HawkingThe 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.
Albert Einstein