Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science – for to fill your heart with love is enough.
What did you ASK at school today?
I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that is most interesting.
To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.
Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She’s always got better imagination than we have.
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
It’s amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.
If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
The ‘paradox’ is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ’ought to be.
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
We’ve learned from experience that the truth will come out.