Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with me throughout….

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind..

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientif….

You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, pro….

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn an….

Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it….

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to….

Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off someh….

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college..

My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the ….

Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast….

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his face, reflected on the i….

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as….

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is….

The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight.….

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization..

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this..

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity..

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself..