“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
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Science quotes
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
“I don’t believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.”
“Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.”
“Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
“Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.”
“The cosmos is also within us, we’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”
“It might look like I’m doing nothing, but at the cellular level I’m quite busy.”
“People can live in carbon zero homes right now… the technology is here! The sad part is that allowing it to happen is the problem.. Our rules and regulations won’t let us do it..”
“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.”
“Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars blown about us by the wind and we drink the universe in a glass of rain.”
“I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.”
“Do you think you’re still right now? You’re on a planet That is orbiting a star at 30km/s. That star is orbiting the centre of a galaxy at 250km/s. That galaxy is moving through the universe at a rate of 600km/s. Since you have started reading this, You have travelled
“These are some of the things that hydrogen atoms do given fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution.”