The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability

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.

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!

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

Granddad offered me one hundred dollars if I would cut my mop of curly hair into a neat military style. Just before the wedding, I got a light trim. It wasn't enough for Granddad, and he didn't pay.

I love painting and have a need to do it.

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.