Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.