Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.
People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
