If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.