In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

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

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

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.