If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive.

The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

Vulnerability of all the emotions is the one that is most often mistaken for weakness. In reality however the opposite is true

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.