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.

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.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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

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

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

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.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

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

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

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

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

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.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

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

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

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.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

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.

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.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

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.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

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

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

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.

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.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

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