Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."

The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

Looking at something changes it.

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.

Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.

His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.