“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change." Charles Darwin

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” Albert Einstein

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. I’ve been in love with science, so it seems the most natural thing in the world to tell people about it.” Carl Sagan

“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.” Jacob Bronowski

“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.” Henri Poincaré

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” Stephen Hawking

“People often forget that kindness is free.”

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall

“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.” Richard Feynman

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences.

“Nothing is impossible, the world itself says ‘I’m possible’!” Audrey Hepburn

“Whatever is true spiritually and ethically about our circumstances… there is no doubt there are spiritual truths… there are spiritual experiences human beings can have…and there are ethical truths. Whatever is true about that has to transcend culture; it has to transcend our cultural differences. 

Consequently, it makes no sense at all to have one’s spiritual life pegged to rumors of ancient miracles. What we need is a discourse about ethics and spiritual experience that is as unconstrained by ancient ignorance as the discourse of science already is. Science really does transcend the vagaries of culture.

There’s a reason why we don’t talk about Christian physics and Muslim mathematics. It’s because an experiment run here and in Baghdad actually works in both places if it’s teasing out something fundamental about the nature of the universe. That is true ethically; that is true spiritually." Sam Harris

“I’m already against the next war”

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science.” Edwin Hubble