The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

And yet it moves.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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 magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

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

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

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

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

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.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

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

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

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.

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

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

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

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.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

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

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

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.

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

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

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

Man lives for science as well as bread.