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"Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood."
"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."
"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."
"You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment."
"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty."
"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."
"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."
"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world."
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
"Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet ... essential to produce food for our planet's growing population. The rainforests of the world also provide the livelihoods of more than a billion of the poorest people on this Earth... In simple terms, the rainforests, which encircle the world, are our very life-support system-and we are on the verge of switching it off."
"As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things."
"Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent."
"Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation."
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."