And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all, so there were opinions of all kinds.

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.

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.