Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

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

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

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