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

And yet it moves.

I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he’s Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I’m a big fan of his.

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

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

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.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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

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

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

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

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

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.

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

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

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.

I need physics more than friends.

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.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

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

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

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.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

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.

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

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

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.

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

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

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.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

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.

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.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

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.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

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

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‚Molecular Biology of the Gene.‘

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.

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.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.