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

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

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

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.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

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

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

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

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

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

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.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

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

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

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

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

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.

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

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

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.

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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.

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

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.