I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

One of the most empowering things about being human is the fact that a single choice can change the entire direction of our lives. What are you choosing for yourself?

When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.