In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

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