You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your o...
There are very remarkable mysteries about the fact that we’re able to do so many more things than apparently animals can do, and other questions like that, but those are mysteries I want to investigat...
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
But that was my big moment: I gave a seminar in the biology department at Harvard! I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go. I
Religion is a culture of faith science is a culture of doubt.
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
You can't fool nature.
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
They were very upset when I said that the thing of greatest importance to mathematics in Europe was the discovery by Tartaglia that you can solve a cubic equation-which, altho it is very little used,...
I happen to know this, and I happen to know that, and maybe I know that;and I work everything out from there. Tomorrow I may forgot that this is true, but remember that something else is true, so I ca...
If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that parti...
Now we have found that this is of paramount importance in order to progress. We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without havi...
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
What looks still to our crude eyes is a wild and dynamic dance.
The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory, you must tr...
People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!
Did learn a lesson: The female mind is capable
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
My businessman friend Dudley Wright saw the drawing and I told him the story about it. He said, You oughta triple its price. With art, nobody is really sure of its value, so people often think, ‘If th...