Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and a….

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing a….

'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thoug….

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms..

I've never been onstage in my life..

You change the rules or you are going under..

Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they….

I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach t….

I prefer not to eat food that has a face..

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer tha….

The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science..

I had fallen in love with a young man... and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later ….

God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us..

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician..

The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid el….

Those who are dead are not dead They're just living in my head..

Everything I do, I do for love..

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it..

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world..

My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observa….

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical c….