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Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'
The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability
There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.
Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is
If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.
Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.
If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.
I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!
Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.
Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'
The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.
If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .
We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."
Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.
So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.