Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Sky is not a limit for me

Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery" Jaypaw mewed

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.

A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.