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.

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

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

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.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

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

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

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

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Law is mind without reason.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

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.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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.

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

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

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

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 have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

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

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

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.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

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

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.