“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from "real" work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science should be open science.”

“Humanism is a great idea that opens up colossal possibilities and abilities of rationalism.”

“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”

“Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.”

“At the top of the ladder is awareness, or pure experience - the edge of yourself, and possibly the beginning of God.”

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”

“You can be a doctor and I’ll still help you. You can be an engineer and I can help you. You can be a scientist and I’ll help you, whoever you are because I am not helping anything else. I am helping you! Peace on this Earth doesn’t begin by great ideas. Peace on Earth begins with you.”