It is difficult to predict, especially the future.

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.

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

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.

Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be.

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.