“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!”

“THE QUESTION IS, OF COURSE, IS IT GOING TO BE POSSIBLE TO AMALGAMATE EVERYTHING,AND MERELY DISCOVER THAT THIS WORLD REPRESENTS DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ONE THING?”

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”

“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”

“All have the ability to perceive and live in dimensional synthesis, yet they spend time with the sciences trying to separate these realms, splitting the worlds into minutia, seeking the god particl...”

“The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volit...”

“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand...”