The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive.

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.

...she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

I didn't think that it's something that would happen. I didn't think I would be in the position, emotionally or financially, to be able to do that. But I've been lucky [to have big family].

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.