"Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion." ― Stephen Hawking Topic(s): Science More From Stephen Hawking "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." "People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining." "I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming." More In Science "If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming."― Phillip E. Johnson "I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle."― Maria Mitchell "So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations."― Thomas Lynch