Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

Someday science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Ce sera, dit-il au garçon venu prendre la commande de son dessert, un supervibrateur subatomique antiextraterrestre

Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being.

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

Right. Isn’t that how science works?” Redwing grinned. “If you don’t understand, do an experiment.

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

Om (AUM) the Divine song is at the same time Symmetry, Supersymmetry, broken Symmetry, and the unbroken Symmetry of Nature.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion

If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.

Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat.