There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.