Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Science
Brain, body, and the natural world.
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
The body keeps the score: if the memory of trauma is encoded in the viscera, in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching emotions, in autoimmune disorders and skeletal/muscular problems, it must be addressed in the body.
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies.
Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
The pleasure of finding things out is the prize.
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.
The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff.
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good.
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I did yesterday and lessen the suffering of others.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
Science is a way of equipping yourself with tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
Knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of planned intervention.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help.
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
In nature nothing exists alone.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece.
Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.
In this great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.