Quotes on Science

In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.

Some people are happy to work in a particular domain or some field of computer science for years, and years. I personally like to kind of move around every few years, just to learn about new areas.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.