If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.
Trying to learn about the future from science fiction is like trying to learn about love from romance novels.
You will hear things like, "Science doesn't know everything." Well, of course science doesn't know everything. But, because science doesn't know everything, it doesn't mean that science knows nothing