That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific inquiry hitherto entered on.
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.
Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.
Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share.
Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.
Naturally, I do things my own way but I'm certainly influenced by my mother's way of doing things.
I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.
Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.
