wisdom Quotes

Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

What one fool can understand, another can.

If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.