science

"Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality."

"Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe."

"Science doesn’t listen. Science has mice growing out of its ears. Wait, I mean human ears growing out of its mice."

"Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this 'blunder,' rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter Λ rears its ugly head again and again and again."

"Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species."

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

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

"Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain."

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

"There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person."

"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change."

"A man who knows what other men know,know nothing for they all know the same"

"No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?"

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

"Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself."

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

"Stop telling God what to do with his dice."

"I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark"

"To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write."

"One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself."