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You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.
The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.
Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?
In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.
It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.
If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.
Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.
All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.
Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.
You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it
All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.
Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.
Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.
I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.
I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.
Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.
People are saying I don't need science, I have everything, but everything is based on science.
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction.
It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.
I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.