I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

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!

Find beauty in the madness.

Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.

Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind

God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.

The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.