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

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.

Science is magic that works.

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 most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

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

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

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.

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

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.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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.

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

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

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

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

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 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.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

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?

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.

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.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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.

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

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.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

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

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.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

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.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

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

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

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

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

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

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

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

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.