science

"The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space."

"The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all."

"The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet"."

"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious."

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

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

"…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed."

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards."

"An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water."

"We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man."

"The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry."

"The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it."

"Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati"

"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."

"Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares."

"Order is heaven's first law."

"...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?"

"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

"Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world."Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really."