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

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.

I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

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

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

The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe Nature does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.