1. “I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
2. “Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad – but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.”
3. “We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way an we find progress.”
4. “Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.”
5. “I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.”
6. “The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
7. “To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. the same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.”
8. “For a successful technology reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
9. “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
10. “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
11. “It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can’t go on without the facts.”
12. “Religion is culture of faith; Science is culture of doubt.”
13. “I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. i think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”
14. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
15. “Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.”
16. “God was invented to explain mystery.”
17. “The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.”
18. “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
19. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
20. “No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.”
21. “Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.”
22. “The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.”
23. “Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
24. “To every man is given the key to gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.”
25. “There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.”
