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

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

And yet it moves.

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

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

Simple goes a long way.

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

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

I think sometimes – not always – I write songs that are accessible.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

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

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

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.

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

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

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

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.

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

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

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

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

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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.

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.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

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.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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

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

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.