Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to...
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men that made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a gove...
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
…the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
I won’t have anything to do with the Nobel Prize . . . it’s a pain in the . . . (LAUGHS).
I learned from her that every woman is worriedabout her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
I believe, therefore, that although it is not the case today, that there may some day come a time, I should hope, when it will fully appreciated that the power of governments should be limited; that g...
Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what...
I won’t have anything to do with the Nobel Prize . . . it’s a pain in the . . . (LAUGHS). I don’t like honors.
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of m...
Why make yourself miserable saying things like, Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this? - all of which, if you understand reality and take it complete...
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of spa...
What else can you do with the law of gravitation? If we look at the moons of Jupiter we can understand everything about the way they move around that planet. Incidentally, there was once a certain dif...