I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

When Bill Burke asked my mother out, she experienced the unluckiest day of her life. Diana (to become my high school sweetheart-and wife) agreeing to go out with me was the luckiest day of my life.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I am so proud to be a Canadian.

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

When I go to the beach, my grandchildren try to make words out of the veins in my legs. That's why I still take the pill; I don't want any more grandchildren.