Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

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

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

There's plenty of room at the bottom.

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.

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