It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

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.

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.

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

To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.