You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.

All we know so far is what doesn't work.

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

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

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

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