Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

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

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

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.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

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

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

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

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

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

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

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!

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

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

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

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

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

Not all those who wander are lost.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

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

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

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.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.