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.

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.