Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

If you cannot saw with a file or file with a saw, then you will be no good as an experimentalist.

Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.

I do not go to the reunions though because it make me feel old

Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone.

I was more worried about what other people would think rather than, you know, me. But you have got to do what is right for yourself and what you feel comfortable with.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.