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Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.
The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.
To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.
One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders.
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.
If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy.
There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.
I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.
At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.
To do suc cessful research, you don't need to know everything, you just, need to know one thing that isn't known.
An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.
The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent
Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.
I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.
If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?
I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.
Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.
A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.
In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.
There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.
Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.
One of my earliest memories was throwing a tantrum because I wasn't allowed to put together the coffee percolator.
Closed timelike curve is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.
Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.