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

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

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.

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

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.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

And yet it moves.

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

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.

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

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.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

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

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

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

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

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

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.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

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 is nothing but perception.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

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.

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.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

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.

We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.

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.

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.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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.

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 is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Science is magic that works.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

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

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

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

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.

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.

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

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

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