I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.

To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.

When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize how much it affected me.

No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles from off the Earth.

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

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

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

For nuclear power to have a future, we'll either need more Yucca Mountains or a way to decrease the stuff we put there.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

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