[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

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.

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

do not let anyone inuntil they love you so fiercely, you have no defense against their love.

Neither harm nor hate.

A star needs a star.

Ignoring a question is as equivalent to ignoring a person.

As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.

Every Christian who keeps looking up stretches his heart's capacity for Heaven.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.