Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.

I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use my work. I don't need anything else. I don't think there's any sense to anything else.... I've already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors... I can't stand it, it hurts me.

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.