I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

Where there is darkness, let me be the light. Where there is suffering, let me be kind and compassionate.

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

I am inspired by many people. First and foremost, I'm inspired by my mother. She definitely helped her children to feel unconditional love and I want to be that same kind of mother.

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.