There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."

The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

Looking at something changes it.

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're still here.

Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

A man without trust is a man without life.

And yeah, it got better. My stomach eventually went back to normal. I didn’t cry every day. But my heart. My heart will always be broken.

A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.