The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

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 not us, then who?If not now, then when?

You do realize this makes your wings even more unique.""Are you saying you shot me as a cosmetic procedure?

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.