I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

All my life I have lived within the very hours of the hands of love.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.