1. “Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.”
2. “When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I’m old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.”
3. “New ideas, fragile as spring flowers, easily bruised by the thread of the multitude, may yet be cherished by the solitary wanderer.”
4. “He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.”
5. “A common sense interpretation of facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics.”
6. “Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.”
7. “It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of man lies. The rise of man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.”
8. “Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
9. “It is true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.”
10. “Science is prediction, not explanation.”
11. “Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.”
12. “The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.”
13. “It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of impression.”
14. “There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don’t know what it’s a plan for.”
15. “The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which has become ever more complex and cumbersome.”
