Quotes on “science”

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

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

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.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

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