It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.