This is not yet a scientific age.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

There was no luck. There was only preparation meets opportunity, and recognizing the latter and knowing when to seize it was ninety percent of any great success.

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

People ask me about all sorts of sounds. There's a sound of a screeching toy or a rubber duck and everybody asks me about that, but it was an absolutely random thing, just a cool sound.

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.