“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.

Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.

Everything is made of atoms.

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

How much do you value life? Sixty-four.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.