The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.

We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking