An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Nothing exists until it is measured.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Sometimes inspiration just requires looking at things from a different point of view.

Comments outnumber ideas.

That's what friends are for. The people who aren't in your life 'cause they're related, or hot for you. They just love you.

Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

I do believe that we're all God's children.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.