The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Science is uncertain.

The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.

We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

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