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

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.

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

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 ?

Her brain is like a filing cabinet – everything neatly stored in categories. My brain is more like soup – everything all blended and mushed together.

In times of adversity, our only anchor is hope.

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community's well being. If you're dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.