If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.
I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.
Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.
Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.
I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.
