“I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax”

“Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”

“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an atom. That's the logic of it. The poetry of it is that the equation tells me ho...”

“You can't fool nature.”

“All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' which is just another way of saying that you can't.”

“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!”

“I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax”

“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an a...”

“I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”