The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.

What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt

If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.