“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”

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.

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.

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.