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If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.
A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy…with a simple payback under 16 months.
Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.
It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.
There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.
I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.
I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be laying the foundations for that.
I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.
Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same.
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.
Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.
The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.
I am not aware of any sensible theory of how classical gravity could interact with quantum matter, and I can't imagine how such a theory might work.
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.
I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.
To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.
What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature], and I hope it does some good.
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.
I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.
We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.
With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.
There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
A lot of the things you see in science fiction revolve around black holes because black holes are strong enough to rip the fabric of space and time.
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.
The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.
There is one simplification at least. Electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in exactly in the same way.
If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?
The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is
Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.
What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep.
Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.
If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.
The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.