Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!

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.

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

Don't worry about anything. Go out and have a good time.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.