Science Quotes

"Evolution works through the creative integration of different forms of life."

"Cooperation is encoded into the very fabric of biological systems."

"We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes."

"The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 4 billion years after the universe began, is a fact so staggering in its profundity that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice."

"Science is the poetry of reality."

"Darwinism is the most powerful and the most proven theory in the whole of science."

"The God hypothesis is scientifically unnecessary and intellectually unsatisfying."

"The gene-centered view of evolution is profoundly true and profoundly important."

"Consciousness may be the most fundamental mystery in science."

"Evolution explains the illusion of design in nature without invoking an actual designer."

"The selfish gene theory doesn't mean genes are conscious or intentional – it's a useful metaphor."

"The beauty of science is that it remains perpetually uncertain and always improving."

"The mystery of consciousness is the last great frontier of scientific inquiry."

"The universe has been waiting billions of years to tell us its secrets."

"The universe doesn't care about your gender; it reveals itself to the curious mind."

"I've spent my life learning that nature is far stranger than fiction."

"Science is humanity's way of having a conversation with nature."

"At the laboratory bench, I find my greatest pleasure and my most intimate relationship with the Creator."

"The question 'Can machines think?' I believe is too meaningless to deserve discussion."

"Turing machines, by definition, can do anything that any computing machine can do."

"A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results were to be found."

"The human mind is surely something like a machine of that type."

"The chemical basis of thought is not less real than that of digestion."

"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence."

"I expect that digital computers will eventually stimulate a considerable interest in symbolic logic."

"The brain is a biological machine and it is reasonable to expect it to have finite capacity."

"In short then, a digital computer, suitably programmed, could play a very reasonable game of chess."

"It is possible that the principle of heredity and of selection are sufficient to account for all the phenomena."

"I do not believe that there is any disembodied action of mind and body relationship."

"I do think mathematical analysis is possible and permissible in this field."