We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc...

Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life — run to your pain.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of manThat function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.

Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.

It's incredible how the human body is. That it could do so much. That it can go beyond the everydayness of life; That it can be extraordinary and powerful, and harbor a spirit of hope and pure will.

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.