The chips are in production, the machines aren’t. So we’ve got a little bit of work left to do.

This time with Xbox 360, we’ve got the experienced team, we’ve shipped a lot of console games and built some incredible franchises.

We’re going to do something that’s really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It’s never been done before.

As the sociologist Daniel Bell later observed, Oppenheimer’s ordeal signified that the postwar “messianic role of the scientists” was now at an end.

The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother’s milk.

Scientific people . . . know very well that Time is only a kind of Space.

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

Some scientists think it may be possible to capture a wormhole and enlarge it many trillions of times to make it big enough for a human or even a spaceship to enter.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

We scientists are clever – too clever – are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

Scientists believe in things, not in person.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a warning sign that should prompt all of us to think through these issues very carefully.

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions.

Exploration is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn’t be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That’s why my public focus is primarily adults.

The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there’s hope for the world.