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When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.
The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.
Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.
The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science.
Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.
The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.
I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!
Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'
At some point, the time will have passed when individuals are capable of major discoveries.
It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.
I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.
There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.
Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.
This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly.
Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.
On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection.
You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.
If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it.
Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.
Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.
If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .
We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."
There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.
Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
Look in, and know the mind is all that is; And knowing, feeling it is all, Then have ye all.
I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?
I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.