"The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 5 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that would be minimized rather than exaggerated if one said that in fact, life is sublime."
"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
"Imagine how hard physics would be if electrons had feelings!"
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."