Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our lives very much.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued...

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen....

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

None of the standard high school science courses made much of an impression on me, but I did enjoy the Advanced Placement Chemistry course I took in my senior year. This course had only eleven...

I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school. I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and...

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen...

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any...

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours...

The present is the key to the past.

Science gives man what he needs. But magic gives him what he wants.

Physicists have yet to find anything capable of exceeding our known speed of light. The Tao cannot be named, and so I say there is one thing that out - paces all things: we call it "thought." I can...

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

Natural Sciences are all about fascinating causality.

That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really works. If that is your goal, then you want to make sure that your information is...