While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.

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

If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No," I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely." At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.