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The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine
Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.
All kinds of physical considerations become senseless when we try to apply them to distances smaller than 10 -13 centimeter.
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.
Black holes do not emit light, so you visualize them through gravitational lensing - how they bend light from other objects.
Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.
My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.
My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.
Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.
Bush is a nice fellow who gives very good parties. I just wish someone would find him a better job than running the country.
Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.
I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.
Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.
I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.
Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.
There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.
Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.
Cabinet members may disagree and even resign in protest, but, ultimately, they must obey the order of the Commander-in-Chief.
Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.
Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.
We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.
The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.
The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
The idea of combining the physics of modern particle theory with cosmology was very young when I started working on cosmology.
So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.
I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.