In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

The same equations have the same solutions

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.