science

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

"Kiss me, and you will see how important I am."

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."

"I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives."

"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."

"I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that."

"So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?"

"We can't help it. Life looks for life."

"In every man, there is a child. In every woman, there is a mother."

"They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race."

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

"We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones."

"I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."

"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch."

"there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone."

"Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?"

"Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?"

"By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it."

"Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.'Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.)"

"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible."