[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could do the same. So why haven't they come to Earth?

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.