A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift – and the rational mind is a faithful servant. – We have created a society that honors the servant – and has forgotten the gift.
Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.