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

Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.

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

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

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