I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

Get the big view of your job. Think, really think your present job is important. That next promotion depends mostly on how you think toward your present job.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

An important lesson: Things that look like an overnight success usually aren't.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.