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

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

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

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.

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.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

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

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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 artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

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.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

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

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

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

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.

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

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

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

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.