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

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

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

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

We’re news junkies in my house.

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

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

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

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.

Facts are stubborn things.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

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

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

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.

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.

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

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.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

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.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

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.

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.

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.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

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

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.

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

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

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

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

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

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

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

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 study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.