science

"History repeats, but science reverberates."

"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men."

"All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either."

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

"[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd."

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

"…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."

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights."

"If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic."

"আধুনিক বিজ্ঞান মানুষকে দিয়েছে বেগ, কিন্তু কেড়ে নিয়েছে আবেগ। তাতে আছে গতির আনন্দ, নেই যতির আয়েস।"

"Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected."

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

"Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."

"One planet, one experiment."

"We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light."

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts."

"Magic's just science that we don't understand yet."

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

"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting."

"I do not like odd things until I can understand them."