If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds