It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

There's no point asking dogs about their dreams because sleeping dogs lie.

If I had two breaths left inme, one first one I would use to tell you I miss you, and the second that I love you.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says."I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw

Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

... he was sunset against the mountains, strong, vibrant, dangerous, and yet somehow sheltering, protective. And married. Picnic, meet rain.

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds All the world's loves in its unworldliness.