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

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.

The 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.

If 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.

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

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.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Jurisdictions 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.

I need physics more than friends.

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.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

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.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

From 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.

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

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

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.

The 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.

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.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

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

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Evolution 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.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

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

Science is nothing but perception.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

The 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.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

Europe 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.

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

It 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.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

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.

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.

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.

I 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.

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

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

Writing 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.

English 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.

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

If 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.

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

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

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.