There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

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.

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

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.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Never burn your bridges till you come to them.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

In America, we've spent trillions of dollars overseas while allowing our own infrastructure to fall into total disrepair and decay.

What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than in a man.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.