I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.

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!

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it

If poetry dies, nothing lives !

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.

I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

I want a better world, but also a realistic world. We can only create a better world by becoming realistic.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.