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

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.

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

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

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.

Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what’s called in the press ‚Obama’s Army.‘ But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That’s critical.

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.

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

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

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

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

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

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.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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

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 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.

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

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.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

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.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

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

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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.

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.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

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

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 is magic that works.

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

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.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

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.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

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.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

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

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

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

I’m an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

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.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

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.

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.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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

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

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

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.

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