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Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.
I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.
I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.
I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.
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.
Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.
Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.
Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.
The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.
It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.
If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.
Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.
Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.
In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.
Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.
If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.
I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.
The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.
With MOOCs, “the real question becomes, where is human intervention important?
A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.
Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.
He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.
I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.
I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.
We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.
My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.
I was most eager to see how Trump would respond to the climate-change question.
[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.