One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or so it seems. They need to know just enough; when they're young they haven't accumulated the intellectual baggage.

The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt

I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.

Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.