The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

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

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

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.

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.