The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.

I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.

A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

If a problem can't be solved within the frame it was conceived, the solution lies in reframing the problem.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right

I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities.

The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples.