Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

Look for the positive qualities in your client's negative behavior.

The only spiritual soul can obey's the spiritual law.

We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment.

It's fine to feel truer than others.But it's much truer to fix our fault.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

A new year reminds us that regardless of how often we fail or miss the mark, God freely offers opportunity to begin anew.

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.