The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine

- Charles Hard Townes

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

- Charles Hard Townes

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in whi…

- Charles Hard Townes

When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.

- Charles Hard Townes

The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, …

- Charles Hard Townes

Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

- Charles Hard Townes

I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

- Charles Hard Townes

Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and r…

- Charles Hard Townes

At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the nature of our universe in these t…

- Charles Hard Townes