I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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.
It may be that we live in an endless universe, both in space and in time. And there've been Bangs in the past, and there will be Bangs in the future.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.
Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.
Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
