My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

I think it's important that science just doesn't stay within narrow boundaries.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.