Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Eureka! I have found it!
Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
And yet it moves.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Chemistry is the study of matter, but I prefer to see it as the study of change.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Where there is matter, there is geometry.
The heavenly machine is not a kind of divine living being but similar to a clockwork.
Nothing can be created from nothing.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Work, Finish, Publish.
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
You don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means.
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds.
Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
In this Archipelago there are two distinct faunas rigidly circumscribed, which differ as much as those of South America and Africa.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself.
Let us calculate.
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science.
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success.
