There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Nothing exists until it is measured.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them . . .the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.

People who help others on a regular basis are ten times more likely to be healthy than people who do not.

It is values that form our decisions.

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

The average person has one Fallopian tube.

Tatiana's eyes were huge and poison-green, eyes with enough pain in them to eat away at a world and devour a soul.

We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.

You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.