“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.

Nothing exists until it is measured.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!

No paradox, no progress.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.

Predition is risky, especially of the future.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

I’m homeschooled with a private tutor.

I’m a little bit backward. I didn’t really go to school.

I’m still in school – I’m home-schooled. I do school every day. I finish in, like, four months.

We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.

I’m a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don’t care what people think of me. I don’t care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it’s time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America’s children.