Some people say, “How can you live without knowing?” I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.
I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things.
I have a limited intelligence and I’ve used it in a particular direction.
A great deal more is known than has been proved.
Everything is made of atoms.
The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider it real.
I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way – by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is.
Don’t pay attention to “authorities,” think for yourself.
Nature’s imagination far surpasses our own.
I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.
There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.
I don’t have to be good because they think I’m going to be good.
As usual, nature’s imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.
This is not very important what I’m doing. I’m just proving something.