“I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!”

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.

All mass is interaction.

If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.