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.

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

The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an area where there might be truffles. The pig searches diligently for the truffles. Finally, he locates one, and just as he is about to devour it, the farmer snatches it away.

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

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

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