Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.
Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.
The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.
We are not figuratively, but literally Stardust.
For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn’t understand. It’s a sense of empowerment.
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
It is a simple feat of scientific, electrical engineering – only expensive – oh blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.
There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.
I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.
Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.
The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it’s extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.