I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good..

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!.

Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy..

Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough..

If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody sayi….

Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and i….

What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any id….

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a questi….

I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matte….

When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do some kind of dance, ….

On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about t….

Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and ….

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience --….

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!.

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life..

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect..

It is simple, therefore it is beautiful.

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway..

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….

We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certai….

I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entra….