“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.”

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

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

Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.

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.

And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

I could use my voice – my entire body – not just my looks, height, and physical expressions.

The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models’] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.

I was drawn into acting due to the fact that I could express myself better.

I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.