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.

The same equations have the same solutions

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.

So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.

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