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

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

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

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.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

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

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

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.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Industry need not wish.

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.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

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

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

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

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.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

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.

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

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

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

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

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.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

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

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

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.

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.

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.

If you judge, investigate.

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.