It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich...

Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it could be correct?'. That's a very different question. One of my prevai...

If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are finally expressed through the four independent basic constants...

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned....

The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is locat...

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world wi...

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and reject...

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the skies so rich, precisely in...

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

She stood up when he approached her,Not to hug him,but to slap him.

I may not always be right, but when I am, I admit it

...space flight still had a long way to go to catch up with the safety record of the milkshake industry.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

Bella,leave the aggressive stuff to me." My heart quirks in my chest. I may not like this guy but that sounded so hot. "Um..." Focus,focus. "What?

It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn

Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something...