Quotes on “science”

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.

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

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?

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

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.

Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you have got.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

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.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.