The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

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.

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

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.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

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.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

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.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks – that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

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

I need physics more than friends.

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

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

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

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

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.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

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.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

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

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.

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

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.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

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

He not busy being born is busy dying.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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

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.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

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

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

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.

And yet it moves.