It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.

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.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.