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I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.