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

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.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

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.

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

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

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

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

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.

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

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

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

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?

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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

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

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

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

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.

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.