Wisdom

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Tomorrows World is already here. It's just not evenly distributed.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty, but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing—that’s what counts.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

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

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Of all things, I liked books best.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.

Image is everything.

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitations, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.