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

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.