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The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.
Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.
The world has found lenses on its nose without knowing whom to thank
What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?
A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.
Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.
As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained.
A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.
To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.
If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way.
The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.
There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future
In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.
Zen phrase says The instant you speak about a thing you miss the mark.
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.
I'm a real klutz computationally, so Mathematica is just ideal for me.
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.
I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.
Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.
One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.
This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.
Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?
We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.
All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.
The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
Never abandon your dreams. You may regret it for the rest of your life.
It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.
Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.