There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

There is one simplification at least. Electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in exactly in the same way.

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.