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Few people realize the number of things that are possible.
The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.
Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!
We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.
I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.
It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.
The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.
The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!
Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.
I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.
I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work.
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.
I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.
To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.
Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.
It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.
I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.
Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.
There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.
Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.
Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.
What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.
The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.