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

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

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

By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.

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

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.