Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

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.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

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

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

Our faith can stand up to any question, but sometimes people ask questions—and keep asking questions—just to avoid facing their own spiritual needs and acknowledging who Jesus really is.

Ketchup is great on hamburgers, but if some gets on your shirt, that does not make your shirt also a hamburger.

You can't help but change a little bit, but on the inside I'm still completely the same person.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

I really believe the most handicapped [person] in the whole world is a negative thinker.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

To feed our people we must first feed our soil

Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.