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.

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.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Quarks came in a number of varieties – in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks – they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

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

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

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.

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

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

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.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

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

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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

The earth laughs in flowers.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

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.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

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.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.