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

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

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

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

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

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

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.

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.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Jurisdictions across the U.S. are snapping up algorithms as tools to help judges make bail and bond decisions. They’re being sold as race- and gender-neutral assessments that allow judges to use science in determining whether someone will behave if released from jail pending trial.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

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.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

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.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.