What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work.

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

The test of all knowledge is experiment.

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.