Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."

The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

Looking at something changes it.

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Whatever you do today, impacts your historicity.

Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.