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

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

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.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

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

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.

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.

Research is creating new knowledge.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

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

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

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

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.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

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

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

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

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

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

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Science is nothing but perception.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

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.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It’s really counterintuitive.

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

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

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

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

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.

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 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.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

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.

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

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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.

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

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

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

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

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

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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.

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

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.