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.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

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

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

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

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

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

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.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

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 who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

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.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

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

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

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.

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

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

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.

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

Look at the Chandra Levy case. It’s become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

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.

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.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

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

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

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

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

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.

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.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

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

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 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.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

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.

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

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

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

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.