"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts."
"[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd."
"Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves."
"Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is."
"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
"I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing."