science

"So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?"

"To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge."

"Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first."

"Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science."

"Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places."

"Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned."

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."

"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know"

"Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora."

"When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier."

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."

"You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up."

"It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously."

"Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better."

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

"The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist"

"God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization."

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind."

"The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day."

"The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee."