Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it

If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out.

The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.

I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.