I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention--it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature. Any word can be spelled just as well a different way.

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.