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If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.
The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.
A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.
Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.
I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.
I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.
One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.
In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.
It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.
The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.
There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.
What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?
If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.
[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?
Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.