science

"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."

"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."

"New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment."

"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."

"[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence."

"Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'."

"May God us keepFrom Single vision and Newton's sleep."

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

"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."

"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification."

"Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen."

"I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess."

"After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would."

"Never memorize something that you can look up."

"...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity,"one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution."

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds."

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."