No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire..

Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself..

... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understandi….

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!.

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasona….

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discov….

I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation t….

The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glori….

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, a….

It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which ….

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries..

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven..

A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very….

Everything is made of atoms..

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?.

What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?.

You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but b….

The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you f….

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things..

In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I….