Là où il n'y a pas de réflexion théorique, la science n'est plus qu'une collection d'archives

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

No matter how good a person may be at doing things , if he or she fails to keep pace with the modern trend he or she may become irrevelant

Pluto will always be a planet in my book. That’s because my book was published before Pluto was blacklisted by planetary scientists.

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

……but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs— as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment,its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i gave you too.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.