It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.

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

Everything is made of atoms.

I don't believe I can really do without teaching.