If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

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.

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!

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back

There can be no justice so long as law is absolute. Even life itself is an excercise in exceptions.”“When has justice ever been as simple as a rule-book?” - Riker

Maybe they have some new line of contacts that gives cute guys an alien, jeweled feel.

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.

You’re not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You’re going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your errors as quickly, as economically, as possible.

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom.