In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal id….

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so..

[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantita….

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are..

'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus.….

The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return ….

Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural..

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

Words will be just words till you bring them to life.

All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practi….

I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it..

Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe prov….

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what go….

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler..

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud..

The simpler things are, the happier they are..

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier..

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages..

Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here ….

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets..

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything.