If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could do the same. So why haven’t they come to Earth?

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, ‘with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.’

I hope it won’t take long.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge