Quotes about Science

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralysing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men.

although there may be inferior and superior individuals within all races, there is no superior or inferior race. And segregationists refuse to acknowledge that science has demonstrated that there are four types of blood and these four types are found within every racial group. They blindly believe in the eternal validity of an evil called segregation and the timeless truth of a myth called white supremacy. What a tragedy!

I have to be careful, he continued, turning to me with a smile, for I dabble with poisons a good deal.

There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average