“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”

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.

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.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.

You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

Don’t let them fool you, you’re not missing out.