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.

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.

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.

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

They began their climb, already weary, and the sun tried to steal whatever strength they had left. It was another god, a forgotten god, who gave a daily reminder, and was forgotten again each night.

Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

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I put out my hand to shake hands with Zero Mostel, and he took my hand [and] he pulled me up to his face, and he gave me a kiss on the lips. And all my nervousness went out the window.

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest