What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

What I can't create I don't understand

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.