There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more likely to survive and reproduce so their pattern of behaviour and thought will become dominant

TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.