science

"Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?"

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."

"Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better."

"Science is only a Latin word for knowledge"

"La Ciencia en ningún momento está totalmente en lo cierto, pero rara vez está completamente equivocada y tiene en general mayores posibilidades de estar en lo cierto que las teorías no científicas."

"Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships."

"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."

"The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible."

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

"The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith."

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."

"The larger a star the shorter its life, but all the more fascinating its death. As it collapses within it’s body, the infalling material can be no longer be compressed; the star is blown to pieces; its shattered mass realeases out ward at the speed of light."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it."

"Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does."

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

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."

"The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and the scenery on the last leg is pretty monotonous."

"A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil."