If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Nothing exists until it is measured.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!

Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?

I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

No matter how much I try, I cant figure out how to not be adorable!

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.