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.

Based on the law of probability everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility confirms the existence of impossibility.

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...

Science begs literature to develop wings.

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence - or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on...

There is no such thing as Hardcore Philosophy or Hardcore Science. Real Science and Real Philosophy do not destroy each other, they simply fulfil and enrich each other.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed...

Science asks facts and religion asks faith, humans are confused between life and death.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

with static electricity

Meanwhile, a serving of broccoli may contain sixty aphids and/or mites

Without a scientist, there is no future. The handsome and attractive characters may earn society's admiration, but all the wonderful inventions related to the future are the result of the work of...

The core of science is not controlled experiment or mathematical modeling; it is intellectual honesty. It is time we acknowledge a basic feature of human discourse: when considering the truth of a...

Robert Goddard, the father of American rocket science

Great wings of New England, the same scientist called it, demonstrating that scientists also drink.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. - EDWIN P. HUBBLE {1889–1953}, The Nature of Science

If a huge genetic gap separated us from our closest relative in the animal kingdom, we could justifiably celebrate our brilliance. We might be entitled to walk around thinking we're distant and...

In the beginning, there was physics.

That goes a step too far, I think. Leonardo did not invent the scientific method, nor did Aristotle or Alhazen or Galileo or any Bacon. But his uncanny abilities to engage in the dialogue between...

The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: 'I don't intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of...

The question is, of course, is it going to be possible to amalgamate everything, and merely discover that this world represents different aspects of one thing?

The difference between the thinking of the paranoid patient and the scientist comes from the latter's ability and willingness to test out his fantasies or grandiose conceptualizations through the...