“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
— Albert Einstein“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
— John Keats“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
— Douglas Adams“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
— Alan Alda“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
— John Lubbock“No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”
— Sigmund Freud“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
— Alan Turing“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”
— Tyler Kent White“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
— Arthur C. Clarke“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
— David Mitchell“We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.”
— Carl Sagan“There is no endTo what a living worldWill demand of you.”
— Octavia E. Butler“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”
— Carl Sagan“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark”
— Stephen Hawking“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
— Douglas Adams“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
— Douglas Adams“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
— Terry Pratchett“But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment.I've seen it. It's rubbish, said Zaphod,nothing but a gnab gib.A what?Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.”
— Douglas Adams“Halt you villains! Unhand that science!”
— N.D. Stevenson“Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”
— Richard Feynman“A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.”
— Anne McCaffrey“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
— Albert Einstein“I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson“If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.”
— Robert A. Heinlein“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.”
— Louis Althusser“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”
— Roger Ebert“Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.”
— Kurt Vonnegut“Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
— David Hume“My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson“Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.”
— Stephen Jay Gould“Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine—Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile madeThe tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade”
— John Keats“We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.”
— Stefan Molyneux“My mind was formed by studying philosophy, and that sort of thing.”
— Werner Heisenberg“Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.”
— Daniel C. Dennett“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.”
— Will Durant“It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.”
— J.M. Dattilo“Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.”
— Felix Alba-Juez“The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible.”
— Jesús Zamora-Bonilla“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”
— Patience Johnson“Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.”
— Stefan Molyneux“There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves.”
— Felix Alba-Juez“Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.”
— Daniel C. Dennett“The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.”
— Martin Heidegger“We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.”
— Frank Close“So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?”
— Self“I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.”
— Self“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson“Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.”
— Howard Pattee“To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.”
— Stuart Sutherland