“I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.”

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.

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

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.

I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

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

You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!

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

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.

I’ve always been a performer. That’s just what I know.

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps

You can’t just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.

The only problems I’ve ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

Your character defects are not where you’re bad, but where you’re wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it’s yours now and you’re responsible for it.