There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the efforts of any one physicist, but because of a flowering of many seeds of theory, most of them planted long ago.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about the way that theory and experiment must interact is likely to be wrong.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.