The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work. - Richard P. Feynman
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. - John F. Kennedy
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. - Isaac Newton
We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay. - Richard P. Feynman
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed. - Herber Spencer
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another. - Richard P. Feynman
Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire. - Carl Sagan
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match. - Isaac Asimov
The problem is not to find the best or most efficient method to proceed to a discovery, but to find any method at all. - Richard P. Feynman
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. - John F. Kennedy
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller
What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances. - Richard P. Feynman
When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.' - George Lucas
I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it. - Richard P. Feynman
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole. - Isaac Asimov
The sun atom shakes; my eye electron shakes eight minutes later, because of a direct interaction across. - Richard P. Feynman
In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations. - Nikola Tesla
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