There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

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

You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!