Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

And in that moment she realized none of it was real, and so she set herself free.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

I'm a part of the no-tight-jeans coalition.

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.