When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Nothing exists until it is measured.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.