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

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?