#science

"The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value."

"You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted."

"It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true."

"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."

"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

"The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible."

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

"The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge."

"Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder."

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature."

"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do."

"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes."

"Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death."

"We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are."

"There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing."

"I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?"

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

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

"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it."