We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

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.

When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

What did you ASK at school today?

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.