Book Quote by David Gelernter

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

— Paul Dirac

For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I was a…

— Michio Kaku

Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all…

— Leon M. Lederman

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

— Francis Bacon

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some…

— John Polkinghorne

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father purchased for…

— Baiju Bhatt

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

— Stephen Hawking

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip…

— Alan Lightman

The simplest science book is over my head.

— James Merrill

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

— Mark Haddon

I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and more productive…

— Daniel Levitin