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“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
― Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random soulmate. In our scenario, you wouldn’t know anything about who your soulmate was until you looked into their eyes. Everybody would have only one orientation: towards their soulmate.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.”
― Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

“A self-destructive man feels completely alienated, utterly alone. He's an outsider to the human community. He thinks to himself, "I must be insane." What he fails to realize is that society has, just as he does, a vested interest in considerable losses and catastrophes. These wars, famines, floods and quakes meet well-defined needs. Man wants chaos. In fact, he has to have it. Depression, strife, riots, murder - all this dread. We're irresistibly drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of death and destruction. It's in all of us. We revel in it. Sure, the media tries to put a sad face on these things and paints them up as great human tragedies. But we all know the function of the media has never been to eliminate the evils of the world - no! Their job is to persuade us to accept those evils and get used to living with them. The powers that be want us to be passive observers, and they haven't given us any other options outside the occasional, purely symbolic, participatory act of voting. "You want the puppet on the right or the puppet on the left?"
I feel that the time has come to project my own inadequacies and dissatisfactions into the sociopolitical and scientific schemes, let my own lack of a voice be heard.”
― Richard Linklater

“When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

“Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elementsâ€� a quintessenceâ€� that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that’s not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there’s a little starlight in each of us.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon

“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”
― Galileo Galilei

“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.”
― Galileo Galilei, The Starry Messenger, Venice 1610: "From Doubt to Astonishment"

“I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Galileo

“With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.”
― Galileo Galilei

“I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]
1. Homer � Iliad, Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus � Tragedies
4. Sophocles � Tragedies
5. Herodotus � Histories
6. Euripides � Tragedies
7. Thucydides � History of the Peloponnesian War
8. Hippocrates � Medical Writings
9. Aristophanes � Comedies
10. Plato � Dialogues
11. Aristotle � Works
12. Epicurus � Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
13. Euclid � Elements
14. Archimedes � Works
15. Apollonius of Perga � Conic Sections
16. Cicero � Works
17. Lucretius � On the Nature of Things
18. Virgil � Works
19. Horace � Works
20. Livy � History of Rome
21. Ovid � Works
22. Plutarch � Parallel Lives; Moralia
23. Tacitus � Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania
24. Nicomachus of Gerasa � Introduction to Arithmetic
25. Epictetus � Discourses; Encheiridion
26. Ptolemy � Almagest
27. Lucian � Works
28. Marcus Aurelius � Meditations
29. Galen � On the Natural Faculties
30. The New Testament
31. Plotinus � The Enneads
32. St. Augustine � On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
33. The Song of Roland
34. The Nibelungenlied
35. The Saga of Burnt Njál
36. St. Thomas Aquinas � Summa Theologica
37. Dante Alighieri � The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
38. Geoffrey Chaucer � Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
39. Leonardo da Vinci � Notebooks
40. Niccolò Machiavelli � The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
41. Desiderius Erasmus � The Praise of Folly
42. Nicolaus Copernicus � On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
43. Thomas More � Utopia
44. Martin Luther � Table Talk; Three Treatises
45. François Rabelais � Gargantua and Pantagruel
46. John Calvin � Institutes of the Christian Religion
47. Michel de Montaigne � Essays
48. William Gilbert � On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
49. Miguel de Cervantes � Don Quixote
50. Edmund Spenser � Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
51. Francis Bacon � Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis
52. William Shakespeare � Poetry and Plays
53. Galileo Galilei � Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
54. Johannes Kepler � Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
55. William Harvey � On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
56. Thomas Hobbes � Leviathan
57. René Descartes � Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
58. John Milton � Works
59. Molière � Comedies
60. Blaise Pascal � The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
61. Christiaan Huygens � Treatise on Light
62. Benedict de Spinoza � Ethics
63. John Locke � Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education
64. Jean Baptiste Racine � Tragedies
65. Isaac Newton � Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz � Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding;Monadology
67. Daniel Defoe � Robinson Crusoe
68. Jonathan Swift � A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal
69. William Congreve � The Way of the World
70. George Berkeley � Principles of Human Knowledge
71. Alexander Pope � Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu � Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
73. Voltaire � Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
74. Henry Fielding � Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
75. Samuel Johnson â€� The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“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

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
― Stephen Hawking

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan

“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
― Albert Einstein