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.

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.

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.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

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.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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

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

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It’s really counterintuitive.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, ‚Read,‘ but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, ‚Don’t read, don’t think, just write,‘ and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

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.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

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.

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

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

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

Science is but an image of the truth.

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.

The proper study of mankind is books.

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

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.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

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 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.

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

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

I’m terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

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

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

I grew up reading science fiction.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

Science is nothing but perception.

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

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

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.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

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.