People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that God. They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible.

Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.