There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
TV is great and can open up doors, but if you aren't there to cook because you love it, don't go. Don't go to "Top Chef" just to be "famous. " It's annoying to our profession and what we all love to do. You want to compete against like-minded people.
My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait. "
Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.