You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.

I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy.