Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.

I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale...

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and...

One problem with politics is that it is a zero-sum game, i.e., politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we...

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

Climate change is the 800-pound gorilla in the living room that the media dances around. But in the scientific community, it's a settled question: 95 percent of scientists believe this is happening...

It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experiments many times, we can finally derive from the observations statistical distributions, and by...

In the latter half of the last century, the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

The simplest way to remove carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is to grow plants - preferably trees, since they tie up more of the gas in cellulose, meaning it will not return to the air within a...

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I hate driving a bandwagon.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.

The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.

The promise of energy savings, reduced carbon emissions and affordable lighting was there from the inception. The proliferation of the technology into areas such as displays, automotive, medicine and...

For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps.

I'm an atheist.

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was...

You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.

We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical...

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to...

Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories.

In the future we'll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don't like it, we'll just turn it off.

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special.