There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.

Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.

Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.