#science

"Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use."

"When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?"

"A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere."

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

"Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it."

"How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?"

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence."

"In my laboratory, I use science to measure love. Whatever you do, don’t drink out of beaker number two."

"Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that."

"I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times."

"Order is heaven's first law."

"I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."

"You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are."

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge"

"Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man."

"When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond."

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."

"DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

"This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos."