I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.

It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world.

For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?

It is simple, therefore it is beautiful