“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!”

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.

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.

As far as the laws of existence are concerned, there is no good and bad, no crime and punishment. It is just that for every action, there is a consequence.

Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.

Only within metaphysics does logic exist.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle – friendship can only exist between good men.

Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.

The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.

Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.