“I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.”

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.

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.

I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.

The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.

A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.

A twenty three year old hits on me in a coffee shop in venice, and I ask him if father is single.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, “I want a Dad.” But you won’t abide in anyone.

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids, I didn’t have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that’s what I gravitated to.

Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

That’s actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

I never had a speech from my father ‘this is what you must do or shouldn’t do’ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.