The purpose of education is to inspire the desire for learning in students and make them able to think, understand, and question.

And therefore when we go to investigate we shouldn't pre-decide what it is we are trying to do except to find out more about it... My interest in science is to simply find out more about the world.

I couldn’t see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.

The test of all knowledge is experiment.

On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Don’t just look for patterns; look for the reasons why the patterns are broken.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Imagine that the gods are playing some great game and you don't know the rules of the game, but you're allowed to look at the board, at least from time to time.

I’m not responsible for what other people think I am able to do. I don’t have to be good because they think I’m going to be good.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

From a long view of the history of mankind — seen from, say, ten thousand years from now — there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

For a successful technology, realitymust take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

The best way to test an idea is to try to break it.

If everyone agrees too quickly, somebody forgot to think.

Curiosity is more useful than confidence.

The joy of finding things out is the greatest pleasure in science.

Simplicity isn't the lack of complexity; it's the clarity of understanding.

Simplicity isn't the lack of complexity; it's the clarity of understanding.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think.

When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And

Nature is quantum mechanical.

Learning is like peeling an onion— each layer reveals another layer, and occasionally, it makes you cry.

Teaching a powerful tool for learning.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

A scientist is never certain.

If you think you can, you may.
If you think you can't, you're right.

One of the biggest and most important tools of theoretical physics is the wastebasket.

Nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s.