The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.