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 saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.

Science is magic that works.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

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.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

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

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

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

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

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.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

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

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

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

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

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

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

I wouldn’t use the word ‚scared‘ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

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

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.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

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

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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.

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

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

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

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

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

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.