Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.

Men have become the tools of their tools.