Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

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

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.

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

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

I love life because what more is there?

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Never take anything for granted.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

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.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

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

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

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.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

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.

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

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

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

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.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

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 day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

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.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

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.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

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

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Life is precious.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.