If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Rutherford is a man you can rely on; he comes regularly and enquires how things are going and talks about the smallest details - Rutherford is such an outstanding man and really interested in the work of all the people around him.