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Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary,

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When we say that a thing is real we are simply expressing a sort of respect.

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There is one constant that seems to be fine tuned... and that is dark energy.

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All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically.

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The urge to trace the history of the universe back to its beginning is irresistible.

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Philosophy of Science is about as much use to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
Sometimes attributed to Richard Feynman

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This is one of the great social functions of science — to free people from superstition.

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Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

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It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

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Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

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We search for universal truths about nature and when we find them, we show that they can be deduced from deeper truths.

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Any investigator is indeed fortunate who can contribute a tiny stone to the great edifice which we call scientific truth.

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As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees's dog.

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Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

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By the mental process of thinking we try to ascertain truth; it is our mind's effort to bring about its own enlightenment by evidence.

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Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

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Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

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A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

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Another lesson to be learned, to continue using my oceanographic metaphor, is that while you are swimming and not sinking you should aim for rough water.

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Physical reality remains so mysterious even to physicists because of the extreme improbability that it was constructed to be understood by the human mind.

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The Logic of Induction is the Criterion of Truth inferred from Facts, as the Logic of Deduction is the Criterion of Truth deduced from necessary Principles.

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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

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I managed to get a quick PhD — though when I got it I knew almost nothing about physics. But I did learn one big thing: that no one knows everything, and you don't have to.

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Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

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It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.

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A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

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I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.

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It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

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It certainly feels to me that we are discovering something real in physics, something that is what it is without any regard to the social and historical conditions that allowed us to discover it.

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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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