Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

April 25th is DNA Day. I know, you probably had no idea.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, All that remains is more and more precise measurement

We have discovered over 95 percent of all the genes that have been discovered by science off the deck of my sailboat.

Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. 5

The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?

If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.