We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.
Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.
But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.
The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.
Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.
Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.