If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

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

I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work.

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.