I’ve been saying for a long time that I’m hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.
God said, ‘Cancel Program GENESIS.’ The universe ceased to exist.
We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.
The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.
The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten – that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.
The future is not to be forecast, but created.
Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.
The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.
I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.
When one has to ask, “Am I really in love?” the answer is always “No”.
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
Science demands patience.
A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.
Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.