#science

"It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend."

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

"Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it."

"There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions."

"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."

"People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free."

"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."

"The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it."

"The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all."

"Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun."

"Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper."

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."

"Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius."

"If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?"

"I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?"

"When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are."

"The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)"

"Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think."