I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there….

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes c….

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answe….

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince y….

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong..

Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations..

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgmen….

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to... No problem is too small o….

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics..

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory..

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe..

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics..

The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty..

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value..

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day….

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of p….

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes..

A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be u….

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket..