People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

‎"Well, It's just painful to see them without nothing to eat and at the same time no God. So let's share our food and our God.

A living together becomes a living apart, when the pineal gland has not been able to create a luster of spiritual togetherness and emotional attachment. (“I wonder what went wrong.” )

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

The danger lies in forgetting.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.

Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

Ideas without execution are hallucinations.