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His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.
The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.
I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.
If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.
Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...
It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.
The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.
If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?
The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.
Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.
I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it.
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.
We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.
Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.
I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.
In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.
Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
I was very uneasy about going into cosmology because the experimental observations were so modest.
We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.
The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.
Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.