For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

To hell with passive, inflict your passion on me.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

I decline to go fox hunting.

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.