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Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.
The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.
Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of Albert Einstein.
A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.
We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.
There is no doubt that radium is transformed spontaneously into an active gas, radon, emitting at the same time alpha particles, or helions.
I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.
Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.
Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.
I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.
If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.
Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.
The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.
Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.
I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.
A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.
If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe.
Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.
We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.
Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.
We need less memorization - I never memorized the periodic table of the elements - I've never used it, and I'm a physicist! I can look it up.
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.
In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.