Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

Bush is a nice fellow who gives very good parties. I just wish someone would find him a better job than running the country.