science

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Lords and Ladies

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. Mostly Harmless

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. Angels and Demons

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. The Salmon of Doubt

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.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

God does not play dice with the universe. The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

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

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Cosmos

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

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

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 usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? A Brief History of Time

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Journey to the Center of the Earth

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes. Brain Droppings

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. Principia: Vol. I: The Motion of Bodies,

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Cosmos

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.