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If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.
I got no thrill from solving an integral equation, but I did get a thrill from building an exotic piece of equipment that worked.
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
We had to understand things like why the top quark was so heavy and the electron is so light. The Higgs is a big, important step.
That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.
The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.
Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling.
Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
I loved teaching. In addition to that, I love physics. And so what could be better than to talk physics to bright young students?
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.
There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.
Janet Landis came to work in my group in the summer of 1957 when our first bubble-chamber was churning out its earliest pictures.
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work.
In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.
The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.
Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?
Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago
We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.
You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.
[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.
The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it.
While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.
You're entitled to say, if you're so smart, why don't you tell me what that dark matter is? And I'll have to confess I don't know.
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.
That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.
We live in a world where there are many risks, and it's high time we start taking seriously which ones we should be worried about.
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.
The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.
It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.