Science Quotes

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”

“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”

“What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”

“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.”

“It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.”

“God always takes the simplest way.”

“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”

“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”

“When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.”

“The destiny of civilized humanity depends more than ever on the moral forces it is capable of generating.”

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.”

“Imagination is the highest form of research.”