Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

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

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

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

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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

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

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

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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.

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.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

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.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

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

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

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

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

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

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?

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 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.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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

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

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

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.

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

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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.

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

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

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

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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.

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.

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

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

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

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

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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 was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

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

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

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?