"When I was in high school, I'd read about the great scientists and I was ashamed that I was not a great scientist. I used to think, 'What's the matter with me? I'm not a great scientist.'"

"The game is to find out how nature works."

"It is not the job of the scientist to tell people what to do, but to provide them with the knowledge to make their own decisions."

"Why do you suppose that, when you are not speaking English, you speak with an accent?"

"I would like to add a third possibility, that it might be that, when we die, we just die, and that's the end of it."