In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

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.

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

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!

Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.

From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.