(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did

What did you ASK at school today?

The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

Don't worry about anything. Go out and have a good time.

What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. We look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.