We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” but ‘That’s funny...’
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.