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

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

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.

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.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

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.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

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

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

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

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.

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.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

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

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

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

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

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.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

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.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

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.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

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

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

It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

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

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

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.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Science is but an image of the truth.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

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

I need physics more than friends.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

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