8,157 Quotes About Science

Masturbating is no more sinful than praying or meditating.

Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

Humans can be just like particles, and in comparison to the endless Universe in size and individual importance, that is exactly what they are.

In our adventures, we have only seen our monsters more clearly and described his scales and fangs in new ways - ways that reveal a cancer cell to be. like Grendel, a distorted version of ourselves." -1989 Nobel Prize Speech, Cited in Siddhartha Mukherjee's Emperor of All Maladies

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

But now, I feel like there's something in me that can't stay quiet anymore. "What I was trying to say is that it reminds me of Einstein's theory of relativity. But obviously[,] Milton isn't talking about the speed of light, he's talking about how the human mind views life."[....]"But really, Milton and Einstein were kind of saying the same thing. That everything is subjective in the human mind. Our emotions, our opinions, they're all relative. It all depends on perspective.

...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.