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Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn't last
Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.
After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.
Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.
The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.
Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.
We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.
It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality
If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.
Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.
If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.
In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.
Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.
There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.
I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.
I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.
The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.
Time doesn't flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up.
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.