There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.
The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.
While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.
When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.
Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.
One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery. " The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and post-modernity - in his native Argentina, because of colossal corruption, political and financial.
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
No matter how hard it seems. . . never give up, always believe.