If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

It is the devotee's job to chant God's name. It is God's business to keep count.

A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.