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Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? It was a bold question, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 4. Victor tries to unlock the secret to life.

There is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realisation – there is probably no heaven and afterlife either. I think belief in an afterlife is just wishful thinking. There is no reliable evidence for it, and it flies in the face of everything we know in science.

– Stephen Hawking

Brief Answers to the Big Questions.

Knowing the mind of God is knowing the laws of nature. My prediction is that we will know the mind of God by the end of this century.

– Stephen Hawking

Brief Answers to the Big Questions.

Unite behind the science, that is our demand.

– Greta Thunberg

To plenery session of European Economic and Social Committee.

For way too long, the politicians and the people in power have gotten away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and the ecological crisis.

– Greta Thunberg

Houses of Parliament in UK, 23 April 2019.

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

– Helena Blavatsky

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

– Henry Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

– Henry Adams

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I’ve thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that’s what I’ve been trying to do all these years.

– George E. Brown, Jr.

I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

– Henrik Ibsen

Never, ever, compromise on science.

– Harry Kroto

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

– Hippocrates

Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It’s not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

– Graham Joyce

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

– Helen Keller

A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food.

– Homaro Cantu

Typically, there’s a drive in science to do something just to say you’ve done it.

– Hendrik Poinar

I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with.

– Hugh Laurie

We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don’t want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

– Hanya Yanagihara

I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

– Greg Graffin

In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.

– Gilbert Newton Lewis

Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you’ve got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn’t as potent.

– Greg Graffin

Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect.

– Henry Petroski

I’m just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It’s great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you’re sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.

– Gale Anne Hurd

Death is not the end; it is but one more step in a great forward march made possible by the redemption wrought by the Savior. This is the spirit of true science – constant and eternal seeking.

– Henry Eyring

Science is about filling in the details.

– Graham Hawkes

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary.

– Henry Eyring

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

– Heinz R. Pagels

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

– Gregory Bateson

I grew up in Saudi Arabia and India and Cyprus, and I lived in a war-zone myself, and, I mean, I had a pretty bizarre, I guess, nomadic childhood, and so I was really drawn to international relations and political science.

– Hannah Simone

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

– George Smoot

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