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.

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.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

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.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.