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Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.
I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.
I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.
For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.
To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.
A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.
There's no reason why we cannot become smarter, more perfect, and maybe even live longer.
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.
We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.
Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.
If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.
If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive.
The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves
If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose.
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.
Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.
Why commit technological suicide by restricting the flow of talent into the United States?
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.
The total energy of the universe is constant; the total entropy is continually increasing.
I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.
Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius!
The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.