science

"Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can't resist seeing how it happens."

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning."

"All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion."

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

"In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels"

"Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective."

"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."

"Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . ."

"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."

"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."

"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it."

"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."

"Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all."

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."

"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man."

"The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off."

"If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it."

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."

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