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

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

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 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 enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

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

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

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.

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.

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

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

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

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.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

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.

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

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

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.

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.

Research is creating new knowledge.

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.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

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.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

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.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

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

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

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.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

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.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

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

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

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

If you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.