science

"A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe."

"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds."

"‎By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory."

"I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred."

"It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?"

"Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian."

"I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing."

"All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?"

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

"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."

"People do not change, they are merely revealed."

"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."

"Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts"shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water."

"The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized."

"Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice."

"The plural of anecdote is not data."

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

"The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don’t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He’ll use his word, and if I understand it, I’ll say, “Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?"