If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.

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

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

What I can't create I don't understand

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.