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

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew 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.

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.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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

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.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

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. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

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.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

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.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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

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

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

Now is the winter of our discontent.

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

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.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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

Jurisdictions across the U.S. are snapping up algorithms as tools to help judges make bail and bond decisions. They’re being sold as race- and gender-neutral assessments that allow judges to use science in determining whether someone will behave if released from jail pending trial.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

I am not a televangelist.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.