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.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

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

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

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

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

Science is nothing but perception.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

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

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.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

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.

Science is magic that works.

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

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

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.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

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.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

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 terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

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.

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.

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

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

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

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

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

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

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads ‚The End Is Near,‘ passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you’re like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

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