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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.”

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”