The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder or at least my biggest blunder in science.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius of erudition and of science.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind and science.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and demonstrations for impressions.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Science my lad is made up of mistakes but they are mistakes which it is useful to make because they lead little by little to the truth.

Science is but an image of the truth.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations directly in the abstract.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable solutions are not.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake and must keep the conscience alive.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science especially in the schools of America.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.