#science

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

"It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity."

"He’s a scientist. He’s never cried. He flips through Googled image searches of burn victims while he touches himself."

"I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously...you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute...HA! I looked hot as a chick!"

"The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality."

"I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out."

"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

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

"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."

"Art is I; science is we."

"Om (AUM) the Divine song is at the same time Symmetry, Supersymmetry, broken Symmetry, and the unbroken Symmetry of Nature."

"It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence,"said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design."

"The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto."

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."

"When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch!"

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

"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."

"Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound."

"If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong."