“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.”

The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.

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

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day.

Don’t be afraid to be different.

If you’re lucky enough to be different, never change.

You do things so fast, you end up having so many different lifestyles all in one short time.

Patience and persistence are two characteristics that differentiate the professional from the amateur.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.