Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.

I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

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Well, the first month of 2014 is soon to complete welcome to tomorrow dream warrior.

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

I felt like I should salute. If only I knew how.

What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation.

The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.