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.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

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

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.

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.

Everything is made of atoms.