Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

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.

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

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.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

I love to show off my ability in a nice way.

You can't describe the feeling of being in love - when you meet someone who makes you a better person.