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

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it bored its way into you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye. It was seen to last forever. You would wish it would stop; altogether it lasted about two seconds.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.