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By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

nature is more imaginative than we are.

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

Like insects on a rubber sheet, we live in a universe whose true form is hidden from direct view.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

Forget Jesus. Stars died so you could live.

But being uncomfortable is a virtue, not a hindrance.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs - as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

It really is the most poetic thing i know about physics: you are all stardust.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology.

For those who find it remarkable that we live in a universe of Something, just wait. Nothingness is heading on a collision course right toward us!

If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.

a negative charge moving backward in time is mathematically equivalent to a positive charge moving forward in time!

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

The universe does not care what we want.

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.

The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

You are all stardust.

Edwin Hubble, who continues to give me great faith in humanity, because he started out as a lawyer and then became an astronomer.

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

While the nature of this radiation will give no information whatsoever on what fell into the black hole,

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.

90% of the mass in your body comes from empty space.

You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.

Forget Jesus, the stars died so you could be born.

Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me. - RICHARD FEYNMAN

Reality doesn't owe us comfort.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

We live at a very special time ... the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.

If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.

Their mutual gravitational attraction will ultimately cause them to collapse inward, in manifest disagreement with an apparently static universe.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.