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.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

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

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.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

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

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

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.

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.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

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.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

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

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Science is nothing but perception.

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.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

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

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 finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

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

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

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.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

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.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.