We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

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.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.