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.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

Quarks came in a number of varieties – in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks – they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

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

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

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

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

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

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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.

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.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

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.

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‚Molecular Biology of the Gene.‘

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

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.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

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

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

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

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

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.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

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

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

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.

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

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

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

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

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.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

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.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

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

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.

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.