I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.

We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.