It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds