I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Most of the crackpot 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. When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in a muddled, incomplete and confusing form. To the discoverer himself it will be only half-understood; to everybody else it will be a mystery. For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but they look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both leave out essential features of the real world. And both are worthy of respect.

I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.