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

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

We 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.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

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

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.

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

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

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

It 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.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

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

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.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

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.

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

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

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.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Those 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.

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.

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

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

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

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

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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.

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

It’s no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

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

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

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

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

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

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.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

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.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Because 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.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

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.

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.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.

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

And yet it moves.