Science is nothing but perception.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

The truth is lived, not taught.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

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

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

States are not moral agents.

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

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

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.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

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

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

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

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

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.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

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.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

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

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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.

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

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?