Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Nothing exists until it is measured.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Some people succeed not because they have wealth and education, but because they have firm focus.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three

To understand an issue or someone’s argument about anything, one needs to understand the very nature of the issue, which is thefoundational question concerning anything.

Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.

Hang onto that goal and you do what you have to do to make it happen.

If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

Vegetables....a waste of good plate space

The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.