[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.