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.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

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

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

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.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

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.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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.

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.

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.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

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.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

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

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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?

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

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

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

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

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

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.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

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

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

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

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

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.

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

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

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.

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

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

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

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

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.