There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.

Humanity will... be confronted with dangers of unprecedented character unless, in due time, measures can be taken to forestall a disastrous competition in such formidable armaments and to establish an international control of the manufacture and use of the powerful materials.

While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field

The opposite of a fact is a falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.

You have to know why you get up every morning.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.

The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.

Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.

Like Free People, the Urban brand is planning to grow by expanding product assortments, expanding the brand reach and by improved marketing.

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.