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.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

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.

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

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

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

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.

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

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

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

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.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

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 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.

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.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

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.

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

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

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

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

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

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.

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

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

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 can’t go out with a Republican.

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.

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.

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.

The great thing about McDonald’s is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Research is creating new knowledge.

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

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

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

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’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.

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.

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.

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

I like surprises.

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

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.

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

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

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.