The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

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

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

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.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.