Predition is risky, especially of 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.

Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

I tend to get sounds that sound a little bit wrecked.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.