Leo Tolstoy

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it. – Vronksy (Anna Karenina)

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

It’s really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories – those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It’s billions to tens of billions.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Science is but an image of the truth.