No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

The last three films I've done are about self-immolation.

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.

I don't think a lot of people are like, "I'm just quirky!" Or if they are, it's a stage they're going through as they figure out who they are. I never felt like I was choosing roles that were quirky.