Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy.

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

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

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!

If there are no great teachers, how can we expect a great future?

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

He was beautiful and still is, we just couldn’t flow within the same constellation.

Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.

It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.