I don't believe I can really do without teaching.
If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.
Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.
Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.
It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.
If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.
Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.
It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.
The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work.
Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.
Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.
The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
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