Occupation: Physicist Birth: May 11, 1918 Death: February 15, 1988
Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this..
When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to ….
I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of ….
When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it ….
Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman diagrams all over my van. ….
Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to re….
The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language..
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a finite number of log….
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it..
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 ….
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study t….
Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done….
While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that..
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out..
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it..
The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability.
If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell '….
The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting..
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter..
(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until ….